They got started way back in 1994, in the "pre-Netscape days," before the Internet took off as a commercial enterprise. It was then that Cornell students Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, armed with only a modem and a Macintosh computer in Krizelman's dorm room.
About 55 miles north of I-95's northern-most point, along U.S. Route 1, is Caribou, Maine, where the school system teaches 1,700 students, the public library holds 50,000 volumes, winter sports enthusiasts ride outhouses and canoes downhill at their annual Winter Carnival or buzz across 1,300 miles of groomed snowmobile and cross-country ski trails.
Last year, the Cornell women's lacrosse team achieved its greatest success in years, earning a top 15 ranking in the nation and winning the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship.
Students enrolled in the four statutory colleges at Cornell are receiving good news this week. The elimination of a proposed tuition increase for the State University of New York when the state budget was passed, most students in the statutory colleges will see tuition reductions
The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1997-8 season has been awarded to Alisa Solomon. Solomon is a staff writer at the 'Village Voice', where she writes theater criticism as well as news features on a wide range of political and cultural subjects.
A New York state appeals court ruling this January paved the way for the Huntington Free Library to find a new steward for its Native American collection, one of the largest in the world.
Got snow? Probably not if you live in the northeastern United States. Many cities and states across the region are setting or tying half-century records for the least amount of snow during this part of the season, according to climatologist Keith Eggleston.