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...past several months, debate about the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy has focused on a plan claiming to offer the United States a "Grand Bargain." The brainchild of former Kennedy School of Government Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, the ambitious plan was jointly conceived by a team of Soviet economists and Kennedy School policy experts...
...Conservation Meter was the brainchild of zookeeper Norman Gershenz, who came up with the notion while feeding the koalas one day. "It creates a link between the wild and what's going on in the city zoos," he says, and it offers zoogoers the opportunity to "do something immediately" for endangered habitats...
...president of his own Morristown, N.J., consulting firm, Polyconomics, Wanniski has tried to draw attention to his quirky brainchild by bashing a slew of famous journalists of both the left and right while fawning over the Washington Times, the right-leaning newspaper owned by members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. His attacks do not appear to have inflicted serious damage on the careers of either Lewis H. Lapham, liberal editor of Harper's, or William F. Buckley Jr., conservative editor of National Review. But then, Wanniski has been putting out the guide for only six years...
...success of Rabbit Ears has a fairy-tale quality of its own. The company is the brainchild of Mark Sottnick, 46, a former high school science teacher from Philadelphia, who began making children's films in the early '80s. In 1985 he and his partner (and now wife) Doris Wilhousky produced a TV version of one of their favorite children's stories, The Velveteen Rabbit. They managed to persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown...
Baby-Sitters was the brainchild of Jean Feiwell, editor in chief at Scholastic Inc., which publishes juvenile books. She noticed that tales with the word baby-sitter in the title sold well to young girls eager for that first taste of grownup responsibility. The club members -- now totaling seven -- and their experiences in fictional Stoneybrook, Conn., were created by Ann M. Martin, a former schoolteacher and children's book editor. Scribbling on yellow pads from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, the 36-year-old author, who lives in Manhattan with her cats Mouse and Rosie, turns...