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University President Neil L. Rudenstine will present an engraved bronze medal and a calligraphy scroll to the winners during the June 10 Commencement, at the afternoon Annual Meeting of the HAA, said Jayne E. Cantor, the organization's assistant director of alumni relations...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Three Alumni to Receive HAA Medal | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...RESEMBLES OWNER?] It's a long scroll down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tangled Web | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Today plastic is nearly everywhere, from the fillings in our teeth to the chips in our computers (researchers are developing flexible transistors made of plastic instead of silicon so they can make marvels such as a flat-panel television screen that will roll like a scroll up your living-room wall). Plastic may not be as vilified now as it was in 1967, but it's still a stuff that people love and hate. Every time a grocery clerk asks, "Paper or plastic?," the great debate between old and new, natural and synthetic, biodegradable and not, silently unfolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemist LEO BAEKELAND | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...scroll down the list far enough, hundreds of entries deep, and you'll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: "Enquire Within Upon Everything"--a nifty little computer program written nearly 20 years ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim Berners-Lee. Who knew then that from this modest hack would flow the civilization-altering, millionaire-spawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...central activity of four of the five societies (Skull and Bones, Wolf's Head, Brazelius, and Book and Snake) is something called the "audit" which goes on all year. Members share their life story with the group. In Scroll and Key, the other of the five societies, the experience is one of debating issues, instead of the audit. The point of the societies is not social but rather to get to know a group of people intensely and learn about yourself in the process. Though the proctor claims the societies can be considered elitist because of the incredibly small number...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: YALE'S FINEST HOURS | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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