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...ALTI MÁR SIGUROSSON, REYKJAVIK...
...technology was on display in Victorville, but the DARPA challenge also demonstrated a new way of developing technology. You could call it the open-sourcing of R&D, or maybe the American Idol-izing of it. Amateurs are free to mix it up with big corporations and research universities. MIT was among the 35 competitors, but so was Team Gray Racing, a Louisiana troupe started by insurance-company executives after they heard about the first DARPA road race. "They said, 'We've got some good tech people--why don't we do this?'" says a Team Gray member. And DARPA...
Bill Clinton's record on gay and lesbian issues has been debated, but no one could argue with the 1996 appointment of R. Scott Hitt as chairman of the first ever Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. In his first six weeks on the job, the Los Angeles physician--the first openly gay person to head such a group--recommended eight urgent proposals, including a White House conference, all of which Clinton quickly adopted. The outspoken Hitt, who once criticized his boss's "hypocrisy" for not supporting needle-exchange programs, had metastatic colon cancer...
...Barry R. Bloom, the veteran dean of the School of Public Health, will step down from the position he has held since 1999 at the end of this academic year, the University announced Thursday night...
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who is currently on a joint recruiting trip with officials from Princeton and UVA, said the increase in early applicants at other schools was expected...