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...original shape after it is bent. This same technique is often used to make prostheses for human runners, like the ones designed for the famous double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius. "Carbon fibers have a shape that will always come back," says Rick Nitsch, a prosthetist from American Orthopedics in Columbus, Ohio, who designed Stumpy's bouncy leg four years...
What has been your favorite role so far? -Ashwin Sivanesan in Columbus, OhioThat's difficult because I've been blessed by so many remarkable roles. I've been really, really fortunate so far. Elegy has not been screened yet; I just finished doing that with Penélope Cruz. But my favorite is House of Sand and Fog because it stirred something inside me. I still love the character; it's left its thumbprint on me. They don't always do that, but he did. There was something supremely dignified about him. He was committed to his family and culture...
...think Italian-American culture is represented unfairly in film and on TV? -Jeff Palatini, Columbus, OH Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage. Most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with...
Worthington Industries was an early convert. The $3 billion metals manufacturer opened a gym at its Columbus, Ohio, headquarters in 1985, later adding free yoga, step and cardio classes. In 1995, it built an onsite wellness center with three full-time physicians, a lab and pharmacy. But with the company's health-care premiums still soaring, CEO John McConnell decided to get serious. In 2003 Worthington hired an outside vendor to implement a program called Healthy Choices that would track and improve workers' health. Workers who participate get cash credits of up to $50 a month toward their share...
...Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 15, 1917, Schlesinger left the midwest for Cambridge at the age of seven, when his father—Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., also a leading American historian—joined the faculty at Harvard...