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...China's guided-missile program: he felt that the title didn't give credit to his fellow researchers. Indeed, while the Chinese-born, U.S.-educated rocket scientist was technically brilliant, he also realized that legions of bright thinkers can do far more than one genius ever could. A co-founder of what became Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Qian helped debrief German rocket scientists following World War II, but he was accused of being a Communist spy at the height of the McCarthy era and put under house arrest. He and his family returned to China in exchange...
Quotes By: "Greed, sometimes, is not good." - Announcing the arrest of billionaire Galleon hedge-fund founder Raja Rajaratnam and five others for insider trading (Reuters...
Jason Shah, ’11, is the founder of INeedAPencil.com, the winner of the McKinley Family Grant in Social Enterprise in the most recent I3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge. Shah has been working on INeedAPencil.com, which offers high school students free SAT online prep courses, since his senior year of high school. For Shah, his for-profit is something he intends to take on full-time after graduation. Shah doesn’t consider social enterprise as a new trend but something that’s always been around without the label...
...Christopher W. Higgins, ’11, founder of Friends of New Hope Ministries, social enterprise has become his life’s passion...
...Returned to CNN in 2001 to host Moneyline, the title of which was eventually changed to Lou Dobbs Tonight. CNN founder Ted Turner had reportedly urged Dobbs to return...