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...Francisco was dominant in the third period, when she scored twice within a span of 2:04 to give Harvard what appeared to be a commanding 5-3 lead. She completed the hat trick with 6:49 left in regulation with a trademark put-back of a rebound in the crease. She mastered that craft while playing on Harvard's explosive power-play unit--except that this time the Crimson was not on the man advantage...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hockey Beats UNH in OT For Championship | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...central database. An even better solution would be to open up his document--and his computer--to everyone and allow them to link their stuff to his. He could limit access to his colleagues at CERN, but why stop there? Open it up to scientists everywhere! Let it span the networks! In Berners-Lee's scheme there would be no central manager, no central database and no scaling problems. The thing could grow like the Internet itself, open-ended and infinite. "One had to be able to jump," he later wrote, "from software documentation to a list of people...

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

...tutor to admit to substituting her own work for Gophers' scholarship, adding some fatty drops of bacon grease to the raging inferno that is now Minnesota Papergate. The first tutor to come forward, Jan Gangelhoff, claimed to have done 400 assignments for Minnesota basketball players in a six-year span from...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoop Nightmares | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...tutor to admit to substituting her own work for Gophers' scholarship, adding some fatty drops of bacon grease to the raging inferno that is now Minnesota Papergate. The first tutor to come forward, Jan Gangelhoff, claimed to have done 400 assignments for Minnesota basketball players in a six-year span from...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: The Greene Line | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...Alamos. ("I get similar briefings once a month," shrugs a White House official.) Only in July 1997, after another briefing on laxity at the labs, did Berger tell Clinton. Berger assigned an interagency group to draft tougher security rules for the labs; Clinton signed them in February 1998. The span of six months from briefing to directive, says a Clinton aide, "is actually pretty quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not To Catch A Spy | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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