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...keep humankind alive and functioning. Here's to the B-team players! Bill Lenters Rockford, Illinois, U.S. I enjoyed reading your article about ambition as I lay on my sofa munching popcorn. I'm now working up the ambition to go make dinner and finish the laundry. Annette Brehm West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. Ford Focused The quality of Ford's products must be improved [Feb. 6]. It's not rocket science. Build safe and sturdy cars that last, and they will sell. Unfortunately, too many consumers feel abandoned by North American car manufacturers when it comes to quality, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Way to Civil War? | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...proposals and manuscripts.A subsequent article published online Friday in the New Scientist also said that Van Parijs, who specializes in immunology, may have falsified data in papers he published while at HMS and Caltech.Van Parijs “has admitted to falsifying data,” MIT spokesperson Denise Brehm said.The improprieties came to light when members of Van Parijs’ research group at MIT raised questions about “research misconduct,” according to an MIT statement, which added that none of his colleagues at MIT were implicated in the misconduct.MIT has not yet specified...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Professor Fired for Faking Data | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...observes Oscar Boldt, president of the Boldt Holding Corp., "and when they unloaded the elephants, there was excitement, real excitement, the sort of excitement you could feed off for months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like when he was handcuffed and got into a box and was thrown over the side of a bridge into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: a Magic Spirit | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...living in reflected glory, I guess." It wasn't until 1985 that the city finally got around to honoring its most celebrated citizen, dedicating its new downtown plaza in his honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city's director of planning and development. "Our plaza," beams Brehm, young Bill's father, "is really Houdini's backyard. It's where he was stringing up clotheslines to practice as an acrobat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: a Magic Spirit | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Three months ago, according to Cahn, a Long Island druggist got back from the developers a roll of color film that showed homosexual orgies. He called police. They traced the film to George Brehm, 49, a prosperous father of three who sells school equipment. Also among the accused were a professor of English at Adelphi University and a married couple who had encouraged their teen-age son to join the ring. The group had even drafted a "bill of rights" for each boy. The key clause: "Every boy has a right to a loving relationship with at least one responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: White Slavery, 1972 | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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