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Over the last two decades, things have changed for Randolph. Now a single mother of two--she and her husband are divorced--she speaks fluent English, works as a kindergarten teaching assistant at the Graham & Parks School and recently moved into a new townhouse...
...Italian Antonio Meucci set up the world's first phone line, on Staten Island, N.Y. But he never marketed his idea. A few years later the German Johann Philipp Reis made a device he dubbed a telephone, over which he transmitted music. Alexander Graham Bell knew of Reis' experiments, and by 1876 had created the modern phone. A few hours after Bell filed his patent papers, Elisha Gray submitted an application for his own phone. Since Bell was first to apply, he reaped the glory...
...scientific and technological endeavor, there are few if any cases in which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity. It ended up as the spark plug. A 1983 interuniversity computer network, intended as an academic exchange, ended up as www.everything...
Centrists saw the opportunity to expand their power as early as Election Day. That night, Senator Bob Graham of Florida telephoned several Democrats who had just won Senate seats and asked them to join the New Democrat Coalition, a group of centrists formed last year. As many as five are expected to join, bringing the coalition's size to perhaps 20 members. The four other newly elected Democratic Senators, including that lady named Clinton who gets so much attention, ran as more traditional liberals, and their part in the moderate calculus remains unclear. Aides to the New Democrat Senators have...
Freshman forward Tyler Kolarik netted the game-winning goal for the Crimson at 8:00 of the third period. With Harvard ahead, 3-2, freshman defenseman Blair Barlow quickly shuffled the puck over to junior defenseman Graham Morrell at the right point. Morrell rushed a shot on goal that Kolarik tipped past B.U. netminder Jason Tapp...