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Brent's father Ray had opened the crematory in 1982, expanding on his grave-digging business. The Marsh family was among the most prominent of the few African-American families in the area. Ray's wife Clara--known as "Preacher Clara"--taught in public schools for more than 30 years...
Lynda Clemmons, vice president at Enron, a Houston energy concern that buys and sells weather derivatives, says the concept emerged when companies' needs weren't being met by traditional insurance. "Insurance companies were saying, 'We can help you if a hurricane blows down your factory but not if it's...
Sound ludicrous? That's what her friends said. So Clemmons did some research and conferred with Mory Gharib, an aeronautics engineer at the California Institute of Technology, who surprised everyone by endorsing her concept. According to Gharib, two 6-ft. by 15-ft. kites, used in conjunction with three pulleys...
Nonetheless, Caltech's Gharib is drafting plans to assemble a full-scale, 15-ft.-wide kite for use with a pulley system capable of lifting blocks as heavy as the pyramid stones. The initial tests will take place in California's Mojave Desert--once someone secures the $100,000 required...
If Caltech's experiments are successful, Clemmons says, she wants to demonstrate her theory on a grander stage: in the shadow of the Giza pyramids outside Cairo, in what she envisions as the most notable kite flight since Ben Franklin's. In the meantime, Clemmons is taken with the idea...