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CMU prof whose `last lecture' moved millions dies
Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They "give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
Web-based program gives the blind Internet access
The computer technology gap between those who see and those who can't just got a little smaller.
1s-time Ala. congressional candidate rakes in cash
Until February, Josh Segall had not so much as run for student council president.  Web-based program gives the blind Internet accessBlind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.
WVU names Magrath interim president after scandal
Veteran educator C. Peter Magrath, the former president of three universities and a national higher education group, was named interim president of West Virginia University on Tuesday.
Mercury flyby shows violent past
Large, bright plains on the surface of Mercury hint of a violent, volcanic past, according to the latest scientific findings from the Mercury MESSENGER probe operated by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.  Zimbabwean leader's reality: Mugabe is RightRobert Mugabe's mother told him when he was a child that he had been chosen by God to be a great leader. No wonder he thinks only divine power - not elections, not foreign critics, not a crumbling economy or a much younger opposition leader - can unseat him. |
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