Word: beached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution. In the evenings on each trip they would go to the beach with four or five other couples for bonfires, Hood...
...good match for him because she had intellectual stamina." Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology," Gates says. Winblad puts it more grandly. "We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves," she says. "And we marvel about...
...There are two types of tech companies," Myhrvold says in between pauses to inhale the aroma of the food. "Those where the guy in charge knows how to surf, and those where he depends on experts on the beach to guide him." The key point about Gates is that he knows--indeed loves--the intricacies of creating software. "Every decision he makes is based on his knowledge of the merits. He doesn't need to rely on personal politics. It sets the tone...
...just got a postcard from a friend of mine on vacation in Tahiti. The picture in front is of a bunch of smiling, tanned people in bathing suits on a beautiful, sun-drenched beach. The note on the back is short. "Having a great time," she wrote. "Wish you could be here." As if I wasn't bitter enough, still shivering from having just run over to the Mather mail boxes through the cold of a January morning in Cambridge, she signed a short P.S. at the bottom: "Hope finals are going well." I walked back to my room...
...three-hour carouse of La Dolce Vita, Marcello sees a beautiful girl on a beach. She has something important to tell him, but he can't quite hear her and he must join his reveling friends. As the movies' most famous Latin lover since Valentino walks away, the girl smiles benignly. She might have been in the Trevi Fountain crowd last week, recalling an actor who displayed the foibles of modern man, and the grace and gravity with which one man can bear them...