Word: foundered
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...includes a brave and pretty woman (Jurnee Smollett) and a troubled, studly male (Nate Parker) for her to fall in love with. But it is true that the juvenile on the team (Denzel Whitaker) really was, as the film states, James T. Farmer, who grew up to be the founder of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) and a towering figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s...
...their parents, there's a lot we can do to help. For starters, we can educate them early on, by explaining their sibling's disorder - a conversation that should be ongoing. Dr. Raun Melmed, co-founder and medical director of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center in Phoenix, suggests including non-autistic children in visits to the doctor or other autism professionals. Early intervention doesn't have to be "thought of as being geared only to the involved child," Melmed says. In his office, Melmed reassures siblings that "other brothers and sisters have negative and confusing thoughts about their...
Tandem Technologies' ship had sailed. Literally. The cargo vessel promised to the young water-treatment company by the U.S. Maritime Administration was instead deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2002. Tandem's founder, Robert Lyles III, a recent graduate of Kenyon College, had planned to conduct research on the ship that would prove to investors the promise of the technique he had developed for treating the ballast water taken on by ships. And no ship could mean no funding. The sudden setback might have sunk Tandem. But surprisingly, it set the company on an unexpected new course--skin care...
Nicknamed the Rebel Billionaire for his daredevil stunts, the Virgin megabrand founder was just dubbed Citizen of the Year by the U.N. for his eco-advocacy. Richard Branson will now take your questions...
...least of his feats. In 1959 Ted Corbitt, dubbed the "father of American distance running," introduced Americans to the "ultramarathon"--a race that is longer, often significantly so, than the traditional 26 miles (42 km)--with a 30-mile (48 km) event in New York. The co-founder of the Road Runners Club of America, he trained by running 200 miles (320 km) a week and won 30 of his 199 events. The secret? "[You] have to be very strange," he said. "You don't have to ... beat someone--you just have to get through the thing. That...