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...University last week proposed a complex multi-million dollar fund for commercializing its professors' discoveries in what amounts to an attempt to build a better mousetrap. Under several arrangements, Harvard is trying raise $35 million to organize companies that would develop faculty research, with the University receiving 10 percent of the profits...
...report's authors say that far from beingunduly solicitous of donors, they actuallyjeopardized the center's financial base by issuinga report which challenged the views of some of itsmajor contributors, including multi-national oiland chemical companies and the federal government...
...even there, says James McKellar, a former Calgary planning commissioner, the skywalk system "kills and sterilizes ground-level activity." For a city to lure pedestrians off the streets, whatever the reason, may be suicidal in the long run. "The retail shop on the street is the key to a multi-use downtown," explains Jaquelin Robertson, former New York City planning commissioner. "It is the life and character of the city. No one goes to Europe," he adds, "to walk along skywalks." Indeed, the profound urban lessons Americans have recently learned, in part, from Europe -- the importance of preserving old buildings...
...gaze is usually impenetrable and impatient, but on this night his brown eyes glistened with moisture. His smile is generally a measured half-moon, but on this night his mouth widened into a toothy grin. From the moment he ascended the multi-tiered podium in Atlanta, before he uttered a single syllable, the Democratic nominee seemed a man transformed. Punching the air in triumph, blowing kisses to his wife: these were not the metronomic gestures of a soulless technocrat. Could that be Michael Dukakis, the unflappable exponent of cool reason, choking on his words? Yes, there was a catch...
Deaf and Blind, Wiseman's newest work, is his longest yet and one of his best. It is made up of four separate documentaries, each two hours or more in length, focusing on the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in Talladega. The films -- separately titled Blind, Deaf, Multi-Handicapped and Adjustment and Work -- teem with affecting, carefully assembled detail. A little blind girl, new cane in hand and helped by a teacher, gropes through the hallways in search of a children's drinking fountain. "I deserved a drink of water for that, didn't I?" she chirps after finally...