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...fact, she has earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including a new bio-pic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention countless websites and, right now, nearly 1,600 products for sale on eBay. (Alfred Einstein has only 309.) For just $9.99 you can get a Large Bettie Page Red Whip Cloth Wall Banner; for $6.99, a Bettie Page Don't Tread on Me Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip...
...late,” he said. “It doesn’t really add up to that match.” Among the contributors to the Harvard Refugee Committee’s fundraising efforts were House tutors and College parents, netting praise from dignitaries such as Albert Einstein and Frances Farmer, The Crimson reported. “It wasn’t much in the way of organized activity,” Keller said. But “it is kind of striking that the students were as active as anybody else,” he added. Last...
...ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes for the evening - and for his own reputation in the arts - on the first, and what would be the only meeting between Proust and Joyce, two novelists who, as Davenport-Hines writes, "were destroying 19th century literary certainties as surely as Einstein was revolutionizing physics." As it happened, the two barely spoke. "Of course the situation was impossible," Joyce recalled later: "Proust's day was just beginning. Mine was at an end." And Davenport-Hine's real story is about to start. After sitting all these characters down to dinner in the first chapter...
...Sometimes what we call ambition is simply talent so great it cannot contain itself. Mozart, Einstein, Paul McCartney and Bill Gates come to mind. But in other cases ambition is just greed. Many of the famous folk in your story fit the latter category. Ken Taub St. James, New York...
...years from Baby Einstein to AP physics are an increasing source of worry for corporations like Merck and for colleges and universities, which see a shrinking pipeline of talented U.S. students pursuing the sciences. Without a Sputnik to galvanize the nation, and with an emphasis on testing in reading and math, the nation's already ill-equipped science teachers have been fighting for the attention of students, principals and policymakers. The policymakers, it seems, are starting to listen. After calling it imperative in his State of the Union speech that U.S. students receive a "firm grounding in math and science...