Word: won
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...this spirit, the paper's editors and writers have been entertaining suggestions from its readers, as well as canvassing smalltown Americans. (The final decision has yet to be made and the capsule won't be sealed until next spring). But even a "snapshot" of life, applied to the whole of human civilization, is pretty ambitious...
...thought I'd narrow the scope a bit: What would we put in a Harvard time capsule? Provided the University still exists in 1000 years--although there is a good chance that it won't--what kind of snapshot can we offer about undergraduate life at one of America's premiere educational institutions...
...upshot of all this is that a Harvard millennial capsule is probably a really bad idea. But that probably won't stop somebody from trying...
...second major challenge the Times faced was actually creating something that would last for a millennium--after all, that's an awfully long time. How can information be stored so that it will be readable in a thousand years? How can we insure the vessel won't be lost or destroyed? Possible solutions ranged from shooting the capsule into outer space to embedding the information in cockroach...
...didn't know diddly," he says, adding that the awards CCTV has won--including one for "Overall Excellence" at the 1998 Hometown Video Festival--reflect the "really cool instruction" the station offers...