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...brought around to admitting the truths on which the scientists' work was based. Lister, in particular, was ridiculed or ignored by his fellow surgeons, who refused to acknowledge the marvels he was accomplishing. But he forced himself to overcome his own gentle nature, persisting with the zeal of an evangelist. In the end, honored by Queen Victoria as Baron Lister, he lived to see his name ranked with those of the greatest medical thinkers of all time. As for Virchow, so revered did his theories make him that he came to be admiringly called "the pope of German medicine...
Shaw has served as a superior to the Society of St. John the Evangelist and chaplain to the House of Bishops. Harris is known as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion...
DIED. NORMAN B. TURE, 73, evangelist of supply-side economics and considered the principal architect of Reagan's 1981 tax cut, the largest in U.S. history; of pancreatic cancer; in Alexandria...
...could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious to me that I can't pretend there's another strategy...
...Since he genuinely wants Apple to succeed, he will continue taking time out to talk strategy with the managers of the company he created. He's just not interested in running the show. "Managing has never been his strongest suit," says Jackson. "But he's the world's best evangelist and if he can find a way to inspire the company while staying out of the way of the CEO they choose to run it, then that will be the best solution for Apple...