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While dropping out of Harvard is not in my future, (though it certainly helped Gates), I'm beginning to see the allure of creating your own web business. Having emerged from the slime and filth of their college dorms to go from rags to riches, the computer entrepreneurs of today radiate the kind of laid-back glamour that clings to jazz musicians and stand-up comedians. In addition, they give their grandparents the bragging rights that used to be reserved for doctors and lawyers. All you need to enter this alternate dimension where the computer chips are lined with gold...
...behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large beach reeds he bought at Mahoney's Garden Center swayed as if the winds of the Bahamas had taken a detour through his room. Friends frequently surfed over to slime in the seaweed and bob with the kelp. They lounged on the beach chairs that covered his sand-colored tarp floor. "Swimwear was highly encouraged," Perriello says...
...frayed nerves. At night, huddled in their tent, they begin to suspect menace from someone or something outside. Could it be the Blair Witch? They hear noises, feel a rattling of the tent, find three small cairns and twigs bundled in an ominous symbol and, one morning, notice slime all over Josh's backpack. One of the three disappears. The remaining two finally come upon the witch's house, and there...
...repair gashed trails, there's no time--or breath--to waste wondering whether the Fourteeners are worth their sweat to preserve. "I've enjoyed these mountains for 35 years, and I brought up two daughters climbing," says Susie Frazee, a retired elementary school teacher, as she attacked Bierstadt's slime with a hoe. "Now I just want to give something back...
...Cammy: I can't reveal what the slime was made of, but I can say that University Dining Services serves it to Harvard undergrads at breakfast...