Word: benjamin
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...natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching bones can be found in the masses of data available in various diagrams and portraits in the Countway collection. Most of the books have been donated...
...Benjamin Rosen, 50, a major investor in Lotus Development and chairman of Compaq Computer. Sophisticated and possessing a soft-spoken wit, Rosen earned electrical-engineering degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford and worked first for Raytheon as an engineer. While still in his 20s, he decided to become a stock analyst. He picked up an M.B.A. degree, worked for Coleman & Co., a New York securities firm, and then for Morgan Stanley & Co. and began publishing a highly regarded electronics-industry newsletter...
Lack of teachers to learn from and of great paintings to see: such problems crimped the style of American painters or sent them, like Benjamin West (the Pennsylvania prodigy who became the second president of the Royal Academy) into European careers. Often the homespun Doric is better than the mail-order Ionic. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) was no Poussin, but his groups of flatboatmen and river traders, leaning on crates with the air of Arcadian shepherds on a ruin whilst floating through the delicate silver haze of the Missouri, are often genuinely classical in their construction and repose...
...cold was especially hard on the poor. In New York City, 16 people, many of them homeless, died from hypothermia over the long Christmas weekend. Detroit's Benjamin Ranson, 49, lived in a car and died in it, curled up between bucket seats. In Tipple Hill, W. Va., Takeisha and Stacey Craighead, ages seven and five, were killed when a coal-burning stove set fire to their flimsy house. Retiree George Toomer, 77, who lived alone in Akron (-14°), locked the house keys in his car and froze to death in his garage...
...Seaport is unquestionably the year's most dramatic contribution to urban livability. A maritime museum, renovated warehouses, a new market hall, pushcarts, restaurants, stalls and stores that are not just cute boutiques, all evoke the atmosphere and bustle of the long-gone sailing-ship harbor. The architects are Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Beyer Blinder Belle, and Jan Hird Pokorny...