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...soiled clothes in the hamper and return those dirty dishes to the kitchen without being told to. From my own highly unscientific observations, this level of cerebral maturity occurs around age 30?about the same time you discover that your parents were more intelligent than you once thought. Gregory Bordelon Chennevi?res-sur-Marne, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

Construction magnate Daisuke Mizutani in 1989 bought half the Bordelon Breeders farm in Texas, one of the largest in the U.S., and Louisiana's Pacesetter Ostrich Farm will be the first to go public this month. Even cautious bureaucrats are falling in love with this ungainly bird. The Texas department of agriculture, which recently hired a full-time ostrich expert, has already made more than $1.2 million in low-interest loans to farmers in the booming industry, and projects that ostrich farming will pump nearly 5,000 jobs and $170 million into the state's economy by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Bird a TURKEY? | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...number of circumstances that might have raised some questions about its objectivity. For one thing, the investigation was conceived by a Washington law firm (Reichler & Appelbaum) that represents the Sandinista government. For another, the two fact finders, New York Lawyer Reed Brody and Washington Law Student James Bordelon, lived in a government residence while in Managua and were given office space by the Sandinistas. The report, written by Brody, also noted that the Sandinistas had indicated where some witnesses could be found and sometimes provided transportation to reach them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tainted Report? | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Potential. In Detroit, while serving time in jail, Electrician Harry A. Bordelon wired his prison bars in order to shock the jailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

Last week Guy Bordelon shot down his fifth "Bedcheck Charley" and became the Navy's first ace of the Korean war. Gratefully, the Navy gave him the Navy Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Navy's First Ace | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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