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...doctoral student at the Graduate School of Design explains on his webpage—and repeats almost verbatim for anyone who asks—that when he was two years old his family was in a near-fatal car accident, and he feels very lucky to be alive. Since then, he has overcome severe dyslexia to graduate from college at age 19—without knowing how to read—and amassed eight degrees. Now juggling work on his ninth while teaching four sections for three different courses, he shows no signs of slowing down. “When...
...morning to ask SUV drivers to slow down. "We had a really high number of accidents that day, a lot of them involving SUVs." A study by the Washington State traffic safety commission found that between 1993 and 2000, SUVs accounted for 9.1% of the vehicles involved in all fatal crashes; however, they were 16.6% of the vehicles involved in fatal crashes in icy and snowy conditions...
...Vietnam and the Americans are coming in, full of bravado and a species of idealism. Fowler, with his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and his fondness for opium, is the resident sage and cynic. The subversive tactics of an American friend (Brendan Fraser) stir him to make a fatal decision for reasons both noble and venal...
...Away Networking makes me deeply uncomfortable," says Brendan Barnes. That might seem like a fatal flaw for an entrepreneur with a strange passion to "reinvent the world of boring, burnt-coffee business conferences." But Barnes' discomfort led him to a gadget called Spotme, which makes its U.K. debut at his upcoming London Business Forum. Developed by a tiny Swiss company called Shockfish, Spotme thrusts the awkward business of fumbling for names and exchanging business cards into the 21st century. Upon entering a conference, delegates' pictures and details are taken, then beamed to Spotme devices issued to everyone in attendance. Scroll...
...different sort of complaint came from neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler, whose scientific sleuthing among clusters of families around Venezuela?s Lake Maracaibo afflicted with Huntington?s disease paved the way for the identification of the gene for the fatal ailment and a test for its detection. She noted that treatment for the disease is no better now that it was when her mother died of it in 1978. That?s at least partly because, she said, drug companies aren?t interested in developing ?orphan drugs? for diseases with a relatively low incidence of occurrence. Thus, without the prospect of a cure...