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...laughing gas. (Don't laugh. It works.) PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, who has a NASA contract to build a robotic Pony Express to the International Space Station (ISS), is pouring his own millions into a ship for galactic travelers at his factory south of Los Angeles. Robert Bigelow, founder of Budget Suites of America, already has a small-scale, inflatable space station--hotel in orbit, an outgrowth of his curiosity about UFOs. New Mexico wants to become the Cape Canaveral of space tourism, but six other proposed spaceports across the country are vying for business too. There's even...
...watching all these developments closely is Bigelow, a Las Vegas icon whom many compare with the early Howard Hughes, the aircraft enthusiast who started TWA, although Bigelow, who is in his 60s, isn't as eccentric, probably. Yes, in 1995, he founded the now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science to investigate paranormal activity and alien abductions, principally because his grandparents claimed to have had a close encounter with a UFO. But in 2002 he licensed exclusive rights to NASA's canceled TransHab inflatable habitat and set to work creating his own commercial space stations and hotels. Last July Genesis...
...meeting of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty shortly after Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, assumed Harvard’s presidency, professor Henry Bigelow questioned the new president about sweeping changes that Eliot had proposed—including the shocking requirement that students pass all their classes to get a degree. Bigelow pointed out that HMS had been “managing its own affairs well” for quite some time and inquired why Eliot felt dramatic change was necessary. Eliot responded, “I can answer Dr. Bigelow’s question very easily; there...
...knows what it means to be a leader of small group of smart people.” Professors said McCartney’s performance as acting dean was a key factor in her popularity. “Kathy McCartney will be a terrific dean!” wrote Bigelow Professor of Education Kurt Fischer in an e-mail. “She has already done wonders to bring our School together as a community and to begin to articulate a creative vision for our future.” —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached...
...example, C.O. Bigelow, the mortar-and-pestle-decorated shop that Fiske plans to expand to some 150 locations nationwide, is a radical departure from Bath & Body Works' traditional single-brand, single-price-point strategy. Judging from the reaction of Kayla Sharrock, 19, a sophomore at Capital University who went shopping at the Columbus Bigelow on a recent Thursday, the strategy may just be working. She used to go to Bath & Body Works all the time when it exuded heartland hominess. "I was a junkie since I was 12," says Sharrock. But over the years she got tired of products that...