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...game took shape on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Montreal in 1979 when two Canadian journalists, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, challenged each other to a game of Scrabble. Then, Haney recalls, a light bulb went on over his head: "Why don't we invent a game?" Less than an hour later they had designed the basic structure. Devising the questions, however, took much obsessive poring over almanacs, encyclopedias and old newspapers. After nearly two years of research, the group, which included Haney's brother John, a retired hockey player, settled on 6,000 queries...
...marks-or more than all outstanding marks put together-was seen. The discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at the unparalleled rate of 90%. Individual German States like Dantzig are seeking to establish new currencies of their own, and the Berlin government is frantically at work trying to invent some new gold-convertible currency for the nation...
Charlie Chaplin did not invent the movies, but he might as well have. Coming out of the British music-hall tradition, he quickly taught everyone how comedy on film should be performed. His onscreen character, the Tramp, became an indelible image of the little guy enduring and prevailing in the face of every tyranny...
With the economy immersed in an era of change, preserving Harvard's billions will become an even more complex task in the future. But for the experts who can engineer, and even invent, new ways of doing it, the rewards come both financially and through the sheer excitement of beating the market. "There's no free lunch," smiles Cabot, "but there are opportunities...
What should an outsider do when a child reveals, however obliquely or mutedly, that his parents are abusive? First, say counselors, the trusted adult should believe the child; youngsters rarely invent such stories. The adult should tell the child that this is not a secret that must be kept, then try to determine if it is safe for the youngster to return home. The adult can confront the offender, warn someone else in the family, or seek outside professional help. Most large communities have child-protection agencies, community mental-health centers, a children's hospital and police departments with...