Ken wrote:
> 
> dame_zumari@yahoo.com ( Louise Bremner) wrote in message news:<1fw1i5i.17clyzm43lezmN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com>...
> > Spotted elsewhere in Usenet:
> >
> > <http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol_video.html>
> 
> Well, I had heard that the Media Lab's financial controls and research
> grants were going down the toilet, but I thought it was said only
> in a figuratively sense...

What was the deal with their big fallout with "Media Lab Asia" or
whatever they were calling their India extension campus?  Since when did
research institutions need brand names?

I suppose it ain't a bad thing.  Maybe soon 18-year old high school
chess champions will be signing $100 million endorsement contracts for
MIT.  Just imagine about any Nike ad with the *Just Do It* replaced with
whispered *Checkmate* and you get the idea.

-- 
Curt Fischer