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...Discontinued. The Volkswagen Beetle, automotive brainchild of Adolf Hitler that became the most produced model in the world; in Puebla, Mexico. First built in 1936 in Nazi Germany as an affordable "People's Car," the Beetle was adored for its shape, mechanical simplicity, and?thanks to a rear engine?its performance in snowy conditions. The last Beetle?No. 21,529,464?rolled off an assembly line at Volkswagen's plant in Mexico, where the car sold well and was a mainstay of taxi companies...
...brainchild of cheese-centric chef-restaurateur Terrance Brennan, the Artisanal Cheese Center is the first major establishment of its kind in the U.S.: 10,000 sq. ft. devoted to the art of affinage or aging of fine cheeses...
...most surprising appropriation of Rowling's world took place at the conservative Vanguard Church in suburban Colorado Springs, Colo. Housed in an old movie theater, the six-year-old church has 1,100 members, including lots of young families. Using Harry Potter to teach Sunday school was the brainchild of Tosha Williams, the petite young wife of senior pastor Kelly Williams. "That's one thing about Southern Baptists--we're very pragmatic," she notes, "and our goal is to reach people with the Gospel." So the teachers dressed as wizards, and the church was entirely decorated, with darkened rooms...
...company is called Windward Mark Interactive, and its field is video games. Windward is the brainchild of Lang and his friend Aaron B. Siegel ’03. After forming a core group of collaborators, which includes J. Palmer Truelson ’03, Eric M. Tulla ’03, Bradley G. Kittenbrink ’03 and Christopher M. Colosi ’03, the team spent last summer hiding away in a DeWolfe apartment, laying the groundwork for their new company, and working all hours of the day—although “working?...
...Chase’s analysis, Kaczynski went wrong as a result of the Gen Ed curriculum, the brainchild of Harvard President James B. Conant in the 1950s. As with today’s Core, the program was devoted to educating students in a variety of academic areas, but unlike the Core, Chase argues, the Gen Ed curriculum had particularly deleterious effects...