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...watching all these developments closely is Bigelow, a Las Vegas icon whom many compare with the early Howard Hughes, the aircraft enthusiast who started TWA, although Bigelow, who is in his 60s, isn't as eccentric, probably. Yes, in 1995, he founded the now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science to investigate paranormal activity and alien abductions, principally because his grandparents claimed to have had a close encounter with a UFO. But in 2002 he licensed exclusive rights to NASA's canceled TransHab inflatable habitat and set to work creating his own commercial space stations and hotels. Last July Genesis...
...Indianapolis - the first NFL game my father ever took me to see was at Soldier Field - I've never been as ardent a fan of Peyton Manning's crew as my younger brother is (or my son, whom I've gladly let my Hoosier relatives turn into a Colts enthusiast). But today I can't help feeling that the balance of urban cachet back home along I-65 has changed to a certain, positive extent. Indianapolis may never be Chicago, but it's certainly no longer the underachieving city I once left for Chicago, as its surprisingly vibrant downtown shows...
Soft-spoken math enthusiast Elizabeth A Cook ’10, who started the year in Math 55, learned about the class one summer at a prestigious MIT research program from a Math 55 alum. “He brought up the subject, and my eyes bulged out of my head,” she says. “Everyone kept saying it was the hardest math course ever offered, and I said, ‘Cool! I want to take...
...house - David Broder, Jules Witcover, Hedrick Smith, Carl Leubsdorf. It was Crouse who once described reporters as shy egomaniacs. There was nothing shy about Apple, though, and that was his greatest strength as a journalist. He was the furthest thing from a cynic; he was an utter enthusiast, perpetually amazed and gratified that he'd been allowed to spend his life savoring the feast of public life. "By his standards," Calvin Trillin said, ?nobody worked hard enough." Todd Purdum, the master of ceremonies, noted that Apple had 73 front-page stories - in just his first year at the New York...
...Although friends and family say Quemener was an apolitical, non-violent PSG enthusiast, he was a member of the "Boulogne Boys," which along with the Supras d'Auteuil, Authentiks and similar fan associations are the most rambunctious, testosterone-addled groups that fill the Parc. The hard core of such groups are the "ultras" - hundreds of racism-spewing thugs who regularly provoke violence both home and away, with rival club fans and even with black and Arab supporters of PSG. Though that neo-fascist clique is small compared with the 48,500 people who fill the stadium on match days...