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Some said it couldn't be done. And yet five years later, the campaign is set to meet its goal and then some, with Harvard pocketing an extra $100 million that no one had planned on. New programs flourished, renovations were planned, new buildings sprung up, financial aid grew and classes decreased in size, with the only casualty being Rudenstine's health along...
Over the last several years, online paper mills and other cheating aides have sprung up on the Internet, offering custom-written papers and essays at as much as $20 a page--a phenomenon with which Aiken says humanities departments will soon have to grapple...
This population sprung up in the 1880's, when many Portuguese came to East Cambridge to work in a neighborhood factory weaving fishing nets, according to Sullivan...
...happened in an AOL chat room. I, of all people, should have known enough to limit my daughter's travels online to the well-prescribed routes--the kid-friendly places that have sprung up like day-care centers along the I-way. But I was harried, busy, too preoccupied with other things to take the time to parse the muddled prose that explained how Parental Controls work on America Online. And so I left the door to the nursery wide open, as Zoe discovered the other day. She clicked on a button marked "People Connection," a collection of virtual rooms...
Just what exactly was transformed? America Online, the newbie-friendly smiley face of the Web that just three years ago was an operational mess, had engineered the largest merger in American corporate history. Time Warner, the immense media conglomerate that had sprung from the loins of the magazine you are now reading--having failed to beat the Internet upstarts with its own efforts--had decided to surrender to them for the best price it could get, about $162 billion in AOL stock. The companies valued the combination at $350 billion...