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...hate to make the decision that a person is not worth recording,” Stoneman says. “After all, it’s difficult to predict the future significance of a recording. So Harvard tries to record...

Author: By Sarah R. Lehrer-graiwer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eclectic Artistic Treasures on Mt. Auburn Street | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

What happens from here on out depends on the kind of technological advances that are always hard to predict. About the same time that Schrodinger unleashed his quantum cat, the British mathematician Alan Turing was sketching out the theory of the modern digital computer. A decade later, during World War II, Turing was helping program Colossus, a room-size electronic calculating machine that used 1,800 vacuum tubes to crack German codes. The abstraction had become real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purr of the Qubit | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Ruggie said businesses in these countries have an opportunity to take a leading role because their governments have not yet begun to address the waves of infection that experts predict...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Business’ Role in AIDS Epidemic Explored | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this business and were ready to do it ourselves," he says. In 1991, Mavi, which means blue in Turkish, was born. It took some foresight to predict that jeans would take off in this mainly Muslim, albeit secular, country. Like Coke and rock 'n' roll, jeans arrived with American G.I.s in the '50s. They became a leftist uniform in the '70s, but it wasn't until the '80s with the advent of liberal leader - and fan of all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making the Perfect Fit | 2/23/2003 | See Source »

Speaking of the NCAA tournament, at this time of year college basketball fans dabble in “Bracketology,” trying to predict how their massive 65-team bracket will take shape in March...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey's Playoff Picture Takes Shape | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

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