Word: sites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization recently expanded its program to the Seattle area, its 10th service site and boasts a laundry list of corporate and private sponsors-all started from the convergence of rooming forms on a Harvard dean's desk...
...that is what makes StudentU.com, a site created to assist the victims of sniffily noses and stomach-aches, a call to action to lecturing professors around the nation...
...with the creation of StudentU.com, a new Internet venture that provides lecture notes from 62 universities across the nation free of charge, this most compelling incentive to attend class has become obsolete. In a recent New York Times article the Web site's creator, Oran Wolf, explained that he launched StudentU.com with the intention of helping student improve their notes or to help them catch up to the speed of the class should they have fallen ill and missed a lecture...
...missing from this equation is a component never to be recreated in any electronic form--the intellectual buzz of a lecture hall, the students' awe at their professor's provoking ideas and the furiously scribbled note that captures that exciting moment of comprehension. Never can or will an Internet site provide the visceral excitement of learning, and alone will this crucial factor keep students attending class at the 62 universities affiliated with Wolf's Web site...
...John Smith '77-'80 has been on the receiving end of the network as vice president of operations at CitySoft. The Web site design firm contracts with inner-city engineers to design sites for clients, giving them an entry into the corporate world...