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...years that followed his disappearance, looking for Fawcett practically became a fad. One would-be rescuer, an English movie actor named Albert de Winton, was found by some Indians years later "floating, naked and half-mad, in a canoe." (They promptly killed him.) In 1979, Fawcett's signet ring came to light in a shop in Brazil. The man himself never...
...Genius 101: Creators, Leaders, and Prodigies (Springer Publishing Co., 227 pages). Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, is one of the world's leading authorities on the intellectually eminent, whom he has studied since his Harvard grad-school days in the 1970s. (See pictures of Albert Einstein...
...night that I inscribed myself into Winthrop IM history. Quincy’s quarterback was a particularly elusive creature, but with enough effort I was able to accumulate two sacks over the course of the game. My success, hard-won, at last earned me the nickname “Albert Haynesworth” (after the Tennessee Titans defensive tackle) among my Winthrop comrades...
...because he wanted to make music that fused the traditions of his hometown with a modern, national sound. “I have a sound,” Shabalala says. “I have a dream. I have something that we can do better.” Albert Mazibuko, the group’s current spokesman, joined Ladysmith Black Mambazo during a time of transition. According to Mazibuko, Shabalala had dissolved his previous group shortly before approaching Mazibuko, his cousin. Almost 50 years later, Shabalala still leads the group, which now includes Mazibuko and four of Shabalala?...
Companies that can't afford to fly safely shouldn't fly at all, some experts say. "I don't want to have the dead bodies keep stacking up and us say, 'Well, regulation costs money so we shouldn't have it,'" says Albert. "In aviation it's safety first and economics second...