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...certainly made a difference in Marco Antonio Mamani's life. Two years ago, Mamani, 33, was a jewelry craftsman in Cuzco, "selling what I could on a plastic sheet by the central square." Then a notice for a seminar on e-commerce by the Peruvian Science Network (rcp), a nonprofit organization that has spurred the launch of more than 500 public Internet centers across the country, piqued his interest. Taking advantage of rcp's free technical assistance and low use rates, Mamani set up a site hawking his jewelry online. Today he is a cyberentrepreneur. Nearly...
Halfway through the first-ever Harvard Cabaret, the lights went up. One by one, poets Eddie Bruce '02, Peter-Charles Bright '01 and Marco Garrido '00 rose in their seats, presenting their offerings for the evening. Like the invocations that kicked off the show, these offerings, varied in content, seemed symbolic in their delivery: the poets stood up to give something from their communities to the arts community. The Adams Pool Theater was packed; the audience flowed from seat to floor all the way to wherever standing room could be found at the back. Whatever was happening in this small...
...jazz concert, Marco L.O. Duranti '02 sat next to a junior who also played jazz piano. Duranti met the fellow jazz fan's brother, another pre-frosh. They are now roommates...
11th century San Marco, Venice. The Doge's chapel was modeled on a now destroyed church in the rival--and more splendid--metropolis Constantinople. But as it prospered, Venice both updated and preserved San Marco's splendor: five shallow Byzantine brick domes were covered over by metal ones. The 320-ft. campanile, foreground, raised in 912, collapsed in 1902. It was rebuilt in 1912--on its 1,000th birthday...
...Marco Polo described huge ships in Chinese seaports with separate watertight bulkheads. Without the compartments, ships with pierced hulls would sink. A half-century would pass before Western naval engineers adopted the technology...