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...Kidjo shows no signs of mellowing. If anything, her travels with unicef and her gathering fame have only strengthened her faith in music as the great unifier. Running through a sales report for her last album, she was amazed to discover that she's a hit in Malaysia, a place she says she can hardly envision. She was just as astonished to be contacted by an American scientist studying the effect of music on the brain who told her that when he played her music to Inuit fishermen, they registered thought patterns indicating overwhelming serenity. "Two years ago," she adds...
...read CDs, remove tattoos and repair detached retinas. But in 1960, when physicist Theodore Maiman unveiled the first working laser at a New York City news conference, only a few grasped the device's potential. The trick to creating the tiny, potent pink force that won him world fame: selecting as his medium synthetic rubies, which had been dismissed by many scientists, and using pulsing, rather than continuous, light...
Tina Fey, of SNL fame, with NBC's Brian Williams...
...months later to deliver it, he was dead. His passing went largely unmarked outside the circle of curators who had bought his albums and kept them interred, mostly unseen, in their archives. Atget would likely have been indifferent to such obscurity, given his preference for work over fame. "This enormous artistic and documentary collection is now finished," he wrote of his life's work in 1920, though he kept on shooting for years. "I can now say that I possess all of the old Paris...
...esteemed career as a fair, levelheaded British politician may have been overshadowed by his fame. Onetime tailor Lord Weatherill, who kept a thimble in his pocket to stay humble, won fans by resisting pressure from fellow Tory Margaret Thatcher to be more partisan while he was Speaker of the House of Commons. Yet more knew him as the man who ushered in the age of TV coverage of the chamber in 1989 and the last Speaker to wear the traditional wig. (It allowed for selective hearing, he said...