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...based sites into one vast, hyperlinked, multimedia-capable network, got Clark thinking--and acting. He and Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications (soon renamed Netscape) and built a business around an improved Web browser. The result was one of history's headiest corporate ascents, as the ubiquitous Netscape Navigator browser helped spawn the world's startling online stampede. "The Internet was the information highway everyone was looking for," says Clark. "They just hadn't recognized...
Impressed by the activism in the Bolivian land-rights movement, Kirshner says he hoped to spawn a similar awakening in Cambridge...
...General Education course structure was developed in 1945-46 under Benjamin F. Wright, chair of the Committee on General Education, who hoped to spawn a curriculum of mandatory "basic knowledge" courses in three areas: humanities, natural sciences and social sciences...
...vote is impersonal, any way you construe it. Its value should not be discounted, but the mob mentality is partly right in that a vote won't do much by itself. The mistake we must avoid is allowing helplessness to spawn from that trivial fact. A vote sits only on the fringe of your rights and privileges as an American. You have the right to vote, but you also have the right to volunteer and accomplish much more than your vote possibly could. A Republican administration might well eliminate HOPE 6. Will that negate the will of the hundreds...
...Schieber scheme would spawn significant transition costs requiring new taxes, such as a 1% sales levy, and deficit financing that could grow to $1.2 trillion over 40 years. All three solutions would create different winners and losers. For example, the first plan would favor workers born before 1965. Despite such wrinkles, two factors promise change--the awareness among young voters that the current system will fail them and the prospect of several hundred billion dollars pouring into the stock and bond markets each year. In fact, a massive securities industry lobbying effort has already begun, and at least one investment...