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Born in 1931 or 1932, the Bronx Boys attended P.S. 80, after which most went to the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School and local colleges. Many entered the Army at the same time and were in basic training together at Fort Dix, N.J. "We still hug when we see each other, and I'm sure people look at us and say, 'What are those old guys doing?'" says Joe Greenberg, a retired engineer in Rockville, Md. "Joey? Howie? Georgie? What kind of names are these? We were a bunch of buddies, and as we got older, we stayed...
...ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate. The hundreds of mom-and-pop solar-power companies that sprang up in the past decade have mostly folded, even in the Sunbelt. Says Susan deWitt, executive director for the California Solar Energy Industries Association: "Our customers no longer feel the urgency to pursue renewable energy." --TIME, April...
ERIC LANDER by Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...human diseases. At the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., which he founded and directs, he is bringing together M.I.T. engineers who can navigate the genetic code and Harvard doctors who understand cancer, infectious diseases and psychiatric illness. It's an enormous challenge--just Lander's size. --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
DIED. ROBERT DEWITT, 87, an Episcopal bishop who upset the church hierarchy by taking part in the first ordination of women as priests in 1974; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In his six decades as a churchman, he campaigned against social inequity, racism and the Vietnam...