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...local inventors who might be among the most important industrial visionaries since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first took to their workbenches. While the machine the West Lebanon inventors are giving the world is not quite the personal computer, it could become to 21st century manufacturers what the cotton gin was to the farmer or the loom to the miller. "If these guys have the materials and can automate the manufacturing process," says Kevin Prouty, an industry analyst with AMR Research in Boston, "that's moving toward a new level--toward a manufacturing renaissance...
...Washington Carver. Johnson was born to a large family in the segregated South; his father worked as a civilian driver at the local Air Force base, and his homemaker mother sometimes worked in a laundry or as a nurse's aide. In the summer, Johnson's parents would pick cotton on his grandfather's farm. The family lived on $126 a month, but they were not so poor as others in the neighborhood...
...funny. Very funny, especially when he's got cotton in your mouth. He comes up with these non-sequiturs. Always makes me laugh. Anyway, at some point I entered a stand-up comedy contest and was one of the winners, and I did a comic at NYU. That started to make me think, "Wait a minute, maybe it's worth a try..." So I went to Chicago and joined a comedy group there. Took improv classes. Was found by Franken and Davis and hired by SNL in 1985. Did that show 'til 93. Then I did "Conan," which...
Eugene F. Rivers III still chuckles at what he says was his best quip ever--the time he called Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "the emcee at the Cotton Club on the Charles...
...their transcriptions, so that often within minutes it will have been stripped bare like the carcass of some hapless buffalo. The tone is supportive and down-homey ("You have ears like a damn dog," ran one appreciative posting recently. "I bet you can hear a mouse pee on cotton"); novices' questions are patiently addressed and everybody knows your name. Make that every Buddy - it seems that the biggest guns in the business frequent the site, including the legendary Buddy Emmons, who is frequently referred to in postings simply as The Greatest Pedal Steel Player Who Ever Lived. A query about...