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People like Revere are what Gladwell calls Connectors. He groups them with Mavens (info freaks) and Salesmen (good persuaders) as the types who spread data the way the most engageable boys and girls spread venereal disease: fast. Gladwell plays Connector in the world of ideas. He links the company that makes Gore-Tex fabric, and which starts a new plant every time an old one has more than roughly 150 workers, with the Hutterites, the religious sect that splits off a new community every time an existing one approaches the same number. This would be a "So what?" coincidence...
Basketball was becoming his great connector: it turned him into one of the guys in Crystal City, where he made the high school varsity squad as a freshman, engendering further resentment until his play took the team to the top. An extraordinary shooter, he became famous for passing--another way to connect with his teammates. He practiced three or four hours a day, with weights in his sneakers to improve his jumping. It led to an acclaim that as McPhee once said, made Bradley "a personality before becoming a person." Known as the best high school ballplayer in Missouri history...
...decide what to do: The Mir's expected to stay up for at least another year. And the ISS's production schedule looks stalled again. After a mysterious alarm sounded in the cockpit, NASA delayed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor and its cargo of an ISS connector-passageway named Unity, until Friday...
Stay on I-91 South until the end; do not get onto I-95. The highway ends in New Haven; take Exit 1 for downtown connector. Take Exit 3 off the connector for York Street. Contuining on York Street leads into the heart of downtown and the edge of Old Campus on Chapel Street...
...proposed to link two alley ways that currently exist together to Harvard Square by a new connector which we call an arcade," said Easley Hemner, president of The Stubbins Associates architectural firm in Cambridge. "There would be cafes on the outside, retail space on the ground level, and offices above...