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Collins' life, although told many times in the press during the genome race, remains appealingly weird and inspiring. He was born on an outhouse-equipped Virginia "dirt farm" - but his Yale-educated parents had earlier returned to the land as part of a rural-community experiment under Eleanor Roosevelt's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reconciling God and Science | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

Evans is the tip of the spear on what may be the most ambitious business effort in the 231-year history of the U.S. Army: an attempt to adopt a management theory, Lean Six Sigma, across the entire service. More comprehensive than the attempt in the 1960s by Defense Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lean and Mean | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

The smart answer to that would be - because we?re smart! The serious answer would be that we were pushing the envelope at the right place, and we were lucky. We did a particular experiment that gave us the insight to change our methods, and we were lucky we did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talk With Dolly's Creator | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

Skilling, a former senior adviser in his country's Treasury, has distilled lessons from the Kiwis' experience. First, good economic policies are necessary but not sufficient. The country's market-based reforms over two decades have not brought a dividend in higher living standards. Although its leaders have talked a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warnings from New Zealand's Birdcage | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

Providence is for rebels. the capital of the U.S. state of Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a stubborn Baptist banished from Massachusetts for criticizing that colony's government. He saw his exile not as punishment, but as a sign of God's "many providences." Dissenters would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhode Trip | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

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