-- This opportunity became available annualy since 1994: - "The Lemelson Center Fellowship."

-- The Lemelson Fellows Program supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. These include, but are not limited to historical research and documentation projects, exhibitions, conferences, multimedia products, and educational initiatives for the fellow's home or other institution or in conjunction with the Lemelson Center.

-- The Center offers fellowships to scholars and professionals who are pre- or postdoctoral candidates or who have completed advanced professional training.

-- Fellowships are awarded for a maximum of ten weeks and carry a prorated stipend. Fellows are expected to reside in the Washington, D.C. area to participate in the Center's activities and to make presentations on their work to colleagues at the museum.

-- For the above indicated Fellowships, application materials available by contacting Maggie Dennis, Fellowship Coordinator at Lemelson Center, Rm 1016 -- National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution -- Washington, D.C. 20560-0604 -- Tel: 202-357-2096 -- Fax: 202-357-4517 -- E-mail: dennism@nmah.si.edu

-- "The 10 Most Inventive Universities in the U.S."

-- Lemelson - University of Illinois - Urbana --

-- "China to surpass U.S. Internet users - 10 percent of country’s 1.3 billion population currently online"

-- "The Tax Foundation - Where Are Cell Phone Taxes Lowest?" --

-- "Americans love cell phones more than TV and landlines" --

-- "My Way News - Ga. town advances cell phone parking payments" --

-- "globeandmail.com: Researchers reveal iPhone cost"
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-- "My Way News - Cheap PC gadget for Internet calls selling well" --

-- "Yes, your goofy e-mail address says something about you" --

-- "MSN Yellowpages - Basic Search Page"

-- "Man either meets life as it happens, takes life head on and licks it, or turns his back on it and starts to whither away."
-- Gene Roddenberry

-- "Directory of Inventors Groups, Entrepreneurial Skills Article - Inc. Article" -- -- "Inc.com | 30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs"

-- "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." -- Charles Brower

--> If you have been assiduously reading the information that the IASL has been providing, that: -->

-- 1. There is only one way for you do it, and that is by digging-in and doing it yourself, and maybe for you, this is the harder way? -- Now read how the Lemelson-MIT Program is coming to your rescue.

-- 2. After finding out this discouraging fact that -- on average, only about 2%, two out of one-hundred patantees will regain their initial patent costs; along comes the Lemeson-MIT Program to help get you ahead. -- "The Lemelson-MIT Awards for Invention and Innovation" --

-- 3. And - you probably thought that there is nobody to turn to in the neighborhood of where you live to honestly help you. -- Again, along comes the Lemelson-MIT Program to help you -- on-line.

-- "Success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable." - Coach John Wooden

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".

The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"

The little girl replied, "Then you ask him".

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to "honour" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"

Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead."

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."

"Yes," the class said.

"Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?"

A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain't empty."

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

"Take only ONE . God is watching."

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.