Word: northfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connect with a simpler computer era and play legendary games for long-dead consoles like the Commodore 64 or Atari 2600. Like so much of late-'90s culture, the emulator scene became cool by being retro. Nick Vigier, 19, a computer-science major at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., last summer found and downloaded a classic version of Frogger and an Atari emulator. Sounding like a member of a previous generation who collected Pez dispensers, he explains, "You can relive your childhood...
Other creative benefits can take a variety of shapes, some of them just plain fun. Jerry Daly, president of Daly Gray, a Northfield, N.J., public relations firm with six employees and annual billings of $1 million, donates some of his frequent-flyer miles to his staff. Daly's practice of letting employees add vacation days to business trips if they want allows his firm to save on airfare--because of cut-rate Saturday-night-stayover airline prices. And his grateful employees get the added benefit of a mini-vacation at no cost to them. "I may be competing with...
...shirt for an appearance last week, he quoted Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia and Deep Throat (the Watergate source, not the porn flick) to lash out at his favorite targets: a corrupt campaign-finance system, the sensationalist media and, most of all, career politicians. Students in the audience at Northfield's St. Olaf College hooted, applauded and did the Wave to show their appreciation. "He wants to help people," said David Parker, a starstruck St. Olaf sophomore who plans to vote for Ventura. "He's like a father figure...
Peller, hailing from the Northfield Mount Hermon Preparatory School, had his own supporters present and obliged them with a winning goal...
...number of publications that disseminate knowledge and their costs have greatly outpaced inflation. Rises in the price of computers and lab equipment easily outstripped rises in the CPI, and these essentials become obsolete at a dizzying pace and must be replaced. MARK U. EDWARDS JR., President St. Olaf College Northfield, Minnesota...