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...Mosaic is both the road map and the steering wheel," says Marc Andreessen, the 23-year-old programmer who co-authored the original version of Mosaic while an undergraduate working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Because the program was developed with government money, the students gave it away free. It soon spread through the network like a virus. A million copies were downloaded from the NCSA computer system in the first year. Another million were distributed in the next six months. Meanwhile, the number of Web "sites" you can visit...
...Strippers with hearts of gold, like Urbana Sprawl, who compares her profession to wing walking: "You're fine, long as you don't look down." And Monique Jr., who assures a nervous dancer, "It's a slumber party, hon. That's how come we're in our nighties...
Jacobsen, presently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will arrive this summer and will likely begin teaching next spring, said Cabot Professor of Chemistry Roy G. Gordon, who chairs the Chemistry department...
...Harvard Dr. Ravi Zacharias is set to speak at next year's Evangelical mega-event, Urbana. This Thurday evening he speaks at the Law School. Followed by an a cappela concert by Under Construction on Wednesday. Now there's something different--an a cappela concert at Harvard! We can't get enough of this stuff...
Much of this, charges Claire Gaudiani, president of Connecticut College, amounts to "dirty tricks." She argues that duplicitous parents are cheating the needy, defrauding taxpayers and forcing colleges to waste money on detective work. Other administrators agree. Says Orlo Austin, aid director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "There's a whole group of people out there who make their living finding loopholes that were never intended." Families say that everyone else is doing it, that no one gets hurt and that college costs are way out of line. But in fact someone often does get hurt, since...