Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What keeps Al Gore up at night? A few months ago, the Vice President was literally jolted awake at 3 a.m. by the idea of a continuous, live Internet image of this planet, an all-earth-all-the-time website. Within weeks, NASA was scrambling to put up the satellites to make his dream come true. Last July 4 he skipped the fireworks so he could stare for five hours into his office computer as it downloaded Pathfinder's first images from the surface of Mars. Another Gore brainchild--he calls it "digital earth"--would allow students with computers...
...community within the larger, straighter, whiter Harvard world? Or is it the administrators who no longer have to deal with the unseemly issue of self-segregation? Perhaps if the administration is intent on eradicating any semblance of a minority community in house life, they should at least ponder the idea of a cultural center. Randomization shouldn't be accepted by undergrads simply because it's the status...
...Connor agrees. "If you're doingreconstructive surgery, that's different, but ifyou're sort of improving on an otherwise solidnature, I think it's not a good idea," he says...
...stuff cheaply, they're definitely a great idea," says James Celestin '00. "Organized sales especially are good because they save you time, you have less hassle and you might find something you didn't know you wanted...
...auction was a good idea, but I think they had it too early in the semester," says Patricia L. Santos '00, a Cabot resident "I wasn't yet thinking about I need for next year...