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Although nothing like the radical transformation Charlie Sheen’s famous “Wild Thing” character experienced in the classic baseball movie “Major League,” the history of Harvard baseball players undergoing mid-career optic improvement is more extensive than one would think...
...protect myself. The more people that knew what happened, the safer I would be.” With two books—and movie deals for both of them—under his belt, Kolb says he plans to continue his writing career. “A lot of famous people from the intelligence world have contacted me,” he said. “[They say] ‘You’re one of the few people who have been able to explain intelligence in a way that’s real...
...three days on Sao Tome were punctuated by a series of happy, soporific encounters. The man sitting next to me at the only Internet caf? in town turned out to be the son of a famous dissident. At an excellent Portuguese seafood restaurant, I met Alecio Costa, a former mercenary who'd staged a coup in 2003 and held power for a week before, you know, realizing he really couldn't be bothered to exercise it, and giving it back. I roused the head of the National Petroleum Agency from his siesta and interviewed him as he sat bare-chested...
...event kicked off the Foundation’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which took place on Saturday. Past Scientists of the Year have included Mae C. Jemison, the first black female astronaut, and Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher famous for training and encouraging Latinos in Los Angeles to take and pass the Advanced Placement Calculus exams. Olivera, a professor of biochemistry and neuroscience at the University of Utah, was born and raised in the Philippines, where he attended college. After completing doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology...
...resulted in immense loss of life in 1937, led to the creation one of the best-known works of art of the 20th century. “[The bombing] is what sparked Picasso’s ‘Guernica,’ which is without question the most famous anti-war work of art,” says Epps. “Picasso was so incensed by what he read in the newspapers that he painted this massive canvas.”However, the impact is not confined to art, Epps says. Spain still has to grapple with...