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What do Chairman of Microsoft Corporation William H. Gates III ’77, world-class tennis player James R. Blake ’01, and Booker Prize winning author Margaret E. Atwood MA ’62 have in common, besides a killer forehand? All three luminaries grace “The Harvard 100” list of the most influential alumni, the feature story of the first issue of 02138, an independent magazine for Harvard alumni that is attempting to become the publication of choice for its elite and accomplished community. The official press release gushes that...
...Margaret Atwood was ready to take us on a journey to the future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...
...glitch spoiled the transcontinental debut. The broadband Internet connection allowed videoconferencing but not the mechanical operation of the pen. Still, Atwood is optimistic. She created Unotchit, the company that makes LongPen, to eliminate the strain of book tours, which can be exhausting, expensive and in some cases physically impossible. Atwood, 66, says that after more than 30 years of touring, she had to look ahead: "As I enter the golden years, let's face it, I will be incapable of doing that...
...Colleen Atwood: This six-time nominee, who already won for her costumes in 2002's Chicago, made covering up in a kimono look super-sexy in Memoirs of a Geisha...
...towns are not above a little salesmanship. So Ellsworth, where Wild Bill Hickock once roamed and locals insist they know more about Wyatt Earp than his biographer does, promotes itself as "the wickedest cow town in the West." Prowers County, Colo., appeals to bird watchers with its 400 species. Atwood, Kans., tells hunters about its bountiful wild turkey, pheasant and deer. Six counties in northwestern North Dakota share a website prairieopportunity.com and play up the area's high-speed Internet access...