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...computer-game wars going back to Atari, has lately taken on the mystery of why there isn't better software for girls. The result, backed by the deep pockets of Interval Research, the high-tech think tank of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is a start-up called Purple Moon, whose debut CD-ROMs will be unveiled in two weeks at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta...
Count Laurel and her Purple Moon CEO Nancy Deyo among the pioneers. "If you're going to change how girls relate to science and computers, you need to do it by sixth grade," says Laurel, who has spent the past five years studying the play patterns of girls at the critical age she calls "too old for dolls, too young for cosmetics." Her research is based on conversations with more than a thousand girls, who (boys, take note) were interviewed with their best friends in attendance in order to "keep them honest...
ITHACA, New York: Visions of the moon as a giant refueling station for future space missions evaporated as a team of scientists said that, contrary to a December report, there's no evidence of ice there. Using new radar images from Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, astronomers from Cornell University determined that what the Defense Department's Clementine space probe showed as waves of frozen water is instead merely the rough surfaces of impact craters. If true, the news could mean a setback for space explorers hoping to use the ice to produce hydrogen and oxygen, the main components...
...Brew Moon...
John Harvard's has a challenger. Brew Moon, the Church St. restaurant and microbrewery, has a contemporary, atrium-like feel and serves nouveau Californian cuisine. Come during lunch and you can watch the brewery while you're waiting for your meal...