Winter 2003

Inside this Issue

Features

The Age of Dangerous Information: The Internet After September 11

Millions of Americans frantically sought information during the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The general populace wanted to know all they could about both the history and background of those who might have perpetrated these crimes, as well as the details of the damage. Following the East Coast...

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All That Glitters

“I was just running down the corridor. I went to Dr. Perez and said ‘It worked, it worked!’ I was very happy.” While burning one kind of fossil fuel, Nasrin Khalili had an idea for cleaning up another. Khalili was in her car-with offices on Main Campus , Stuart School...

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Unleashing Blue Yonder

James Roche speaks fatalistically about his abnormal major when he was at Illinois Institute of Technology , where he majored in English Literature from 1957 to 1960. Although his Pi Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers and almost everyone else studied engineering, he recalls how his presence among flocks of prospective engineers...

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If Newborns Could Say Thank You

There’s a reason for the sentimental media stories you see about babies’ lives being at danger or great medical risk: there’s not much that tugs at the heartstrings like a small helpless human life imperiled. A recent alumnus of the Institute of Design (ID), Brian Stonecipher, has developed a groundbreaking...