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...started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. The year was 1980. Berners-Lee, doing a six-month stint as a software engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, was noodling around with a way to organize his far-flung notes. He had always been interested in programs that dealt with information in a "brain-like way" but that could improve upon that occasionally memory-constrained organ. So he devised a piece of software that could, as he put it, keep "track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains...

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

...graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., Stahl began her journalism career in 1968, when she worked as a writer-researcher for NBC News. She joined CBS in 1972 after a stint as a producer for then-CBS Boston affiliate WHDH...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: '60 Minutes' Journalist Awarded Goldsmith | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...graduate of Wheaton college in Norton, Mass.,Stahl began her journalism career in 1968, whenshe worked as a writer-researcher for NBC News.She joined CBS in 1972 after a stint as a producerfor then-CBS Boston affiliate WHDH...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nationwide, Sweatshop Activists Set Precedent | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...would she want to put up with it, especially when the prize is a six-year stint as a junior Senator? Perhaps because the alternative ways of pushing her issues are less lustrous. Grunwald says that "when somebody suggests that the U.S. Senate might be the best platform, you don't dismiss it." And there is a larger reason for Hillary to run. She has spent much of Clinton's second term trying to define--in wonky confabs with intellectuals, party leaders and foreign heads of state--a "third way," a progressive politics that hews neither to the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton: A Race Of Her Own | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Cultural Rhythms grooved for 120 minutes / "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" runs 3.83 minutes / Cooking time for rojak, a Singaporean/Malaysian salad 110 minutes / George Clooney's stint on ER 2,365,920 minutes / Cassat at the MFA for another 105,120 minutes / Gene Siskel's television career lasted 13,140,000 minutes / Time since last execution in Massachusetts 27,331,200 minutes / Average trolley ride to freshman formal 17 minutes / new Pudding show has been performed for 840 minutes / Girl Scout cookies can be delivered in 25,920 minutes / For an hour's worth of minimum wage ($5.25), a sweatshop worker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Minutes | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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