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...Microsoft's Bill Gates, that has meant wiring our libraries to 21st century broadband standards--in some of the same buildings that Andrew Carnegie built in the early 1900s. For Gates, it has also meant tackling a host of infectious diseases in the Third World. Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale is spending $100 million to teach more kids to read in his native Mississippi, which ranks near the bottom in state rankings of literacy. Jim Clark, legendary founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, has pledged $150 million for a biomedical-research facility at Stanford. Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay...
...John Paul also plans to bestow sainthood on two women this year--the Polish nun Faustina Kowalska, who died in a Nazi concentration camp; and Katharine Drexel, an American socialite turned educator who dedicated her life to teaching poor blacks and Native Americans in the first half of the 1900s. And he has started his late friend Mother Teresa down the beatification path, waiving the five-years-posthumous rule in her case...
...wish I could accurately report on our status in the world. We've got the weapons and the dollars. What Henry Luce saw as the American Century in the middle of the 1900s is nothing compared with the Americanization of the globe these days. Whether this owes more to cheap hamburgers or to free thought is hard to know. We are as we were and probably will be forever--eager to control the world and eager to stay...
...1900s China 1936 coverlet for bound foot; some were 3 in. long...
...challenge of creating a complete theory--one capable of explaining, in Einstein's words, "every element of the physical reality." And judging from the progress they have made, the next century could usher in an intellectual revolution even more exciting than the one Einstein helped launch in the early 1900s...