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Levitt will be remembered by the world as the man who coined the word “globalization,” but for his former students, his colleagues, and his loved ones, he was above all a man who could bestow down-to-earth advice as well as ground-breaking theory...
...just good advice—wisdom,” said Berolzheimer about his fireside chat with Levitt. “It wasn’t necessarily earth-shattering...
...mile-long sliver of land known as the Gaza Strip. Its cities are a chaotic maze of dusty alleyways lined by warrens of crumbling buildings that each seem indistinguishable from the next. The 1.4 million people who live there make it the most densely populated patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held air of suspicion and gangs of gunmen ready to open fire on outsiders who tread on their turf...
...rude--although I admit it is kind of rude--but because those are the writers that people--people who think about such things, anyway--think of as the young American novelists. And even by the notoriously elastic standards of the literary world--the only place on earth where you can still be a wunderkind at the age of 30--42 is not especially youthful. Wallace, Franzen, Lethem and Chabon may be great writers, but one thing they are not is young writers...
...improvements that we gained from our work in space, all of those improvements come back to improve life here on Earth,” Wilson said in the NASA interview. “I think there are great benefits to the work that we’re doing, and it’s just very worthwhile and worth the risk...