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Forbes has the most distinctive campaign style of anyone in the field, which is to say none. It is all his handlers can do to get him to unclasp his hands. There's not a chance he'll loosen his tie. He is devoutly unglib, though a fluid speaker who uses no notes. However remote he may seem from their life and experiences, people say he seems honest and authentic, someone who doesn't stare over your shoulder when he's talking to see who has come into the room. "You ask him a question, and he doesn't build...
These were, as he might say, fluid years for Gingrich. As a student and, later, professor, Gingrich was no conservative firebrand; at Tulane, he admits, he smoked pot; protested the Administration's decision to censor a photo of a nude sculpture in the school newspaper, the Hullabaloo; and generally maintained a high profile as a Rockefeller Republican, serving as the Louisiana coordinator of that campaign in 1968. At West Georgia he started the environmental-studies program, an outpost on the lefty fringes of academia...
Although Stone's research has focused on fluid mechanics, or the study of how various particles move, undergraduates know Stone best as the instructor of Applied Mathematics 105b: "Topics in Applied Mathematics...
...Tool Kit The animals that aerated the Precambrian oceans could have resembled the wormlike something that left its meandering marks on the rock Erwin lugged back from Namibia. More advanced than a flatworm, which was not rigid enough to burrow through sand, this creature would have had a sturdy, fluid-filled body cavity. It would have had musculature capable of strong contractions. It probably had a heart, a well-defined head with an eye for sensing light and, last but not least, a gastrointestinal tract with an opening at each end. What kind of genetic machinery, Erwin wondered, did nature...
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wild was sight-reading by age six, his fluid technique already a source of wonder. As a teenage student of the formidable Egon Petri (a tough, intellectual pianist renowned for his sturdy Liszt and penetrating Beethoven performances), Wild was already a concert-hall veteran, a kind of young American version of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1942, the legendary Arturo Toscanini invited him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the NBC Symphony. Wild remains the only American soloist ever to play under the fiery Italian maestro...