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...coach Bill Cowher, who won Super Bowl XL. Cowher explained that every great speech has to present players with a challenge, a plan to meet that challenge and an incentive for meeting that challenge. Then he retold the most effective speech he ever gave to a team. "When Christopher Columbus left and got on the boat, everyone told him not to go because the world is flat and he's going to fall off the face of the earth," began Cowher. I realized then that there is probably a good deal of history that would be new to professional football...
...your colleagues at Motown have any idea that your work was so special and would be so revered 50 years later? Amy Szmania COLUMBUS, OHIO...
...year later, Banaji boarded a plane to Columbus, Ohio, leaving the psychophysics and Marxist sociology she had been studying in India behind. After receiving her Ph.D. from Ohio State in social psychology, Banaji traveled around the country as research assistant, instructor, and post-doc fellow in several different institutes, before she finally settled at Yale to study unconscious bias...
Cuba's fertile land and favorable climate allowed all three types of tobacco leaves used in a cigar - the wrapper, filler and binder - to be harvested on the island, and sailing ships were soon distributing Cuban tobacco from Europe to Asia. Columbus had claimed Cuba for Spain, and the Spanish soon cornered the nascent industry, mandating in the 17th century that all tobacco for export be registered in Seville; they later tightened their stranglehold on the market by forbidding Cuban growers to sell the crop to anyone but them - a monopoly that persisted until...
...least as far back as the 10th century depicts a Mayan puffing on tobacco leaves bound up with string. (The Mayans may also have handed down the object's name: their term for smoking, sikar, likely led to the Spanish cigarro, from which the cigar takes its name.) When Columbus stumbled upon the Americas in 1492, he also discovered tobacco; the New World's natives smoked cylindrical bundles of twisted tobacco leaves wrapped in dried palm or corn husks...