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...developed Linux, the source code of which has been given to the world free of charge. The operating system is maintained by thousands of programmers around the world and is a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows. Torvalds created a community made possible only by the Internet. WAYNE LABS Broomall, Pa...
Some private liberal arts colleges are making it easier for men to get in. At Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., this year's freshman class is 43% male--up from 36% last year--in part because the school gave preference to "qualified male candidates on the margin," says Robert Massa, vice president for enrollment and student life. The idea gets mixed reviews among Dickinson's students. "It reeks of affirmative action," says physics major Michelle Edwards. But Massa emphasizes that "the men we admitted were as qualified as the women...
Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Wild showed precocity at age three; by six he had a fluent technique. While still a teenage student of the distinguished Dutch pianist Egon Petri, he was already a concert-hall veteran. In 1937 Arturo Toscanini engaged Wild to fill the coveted position of staff pianist for his NBC Symphony Orchestra. Toscanini could be irascible, but he and Wild hit it off. "We both loved music so tirelessly," Wild says. The fiery maestro made Wild famous in 1942 by inviting him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in a nationally broadcast concert...
...have started the week brandishing a machine pistol as a theatrical form of identifying himself with the "struggle," but many Palestinian militiamen are reportedly under no illusion that when he decides to return to the negotiating table, they'll be blacklisted by the Palestinian Authority. And, of course, the PA's record of corruption makes many ordinary Palestinians skeptical about how much of the aid currently being promised by the West and the Arab world will ever reach the Palestinian street...
...SIMPLE SNAP TRAP WAS MADE BY JOHN MAST OF LITITZ, PA., AND IS STILL PRODUCED BY WOODSTREAM. IT IS CALLED THE VICTOR...