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...Amazing Adventures of Ben Franklin...
...wishes to get out of this century alive, its leaders would do well to heed the lessons of Benjamin Franklin." FRED WICKHAM San Francisco...
Your tribute to Ben Franklin was a useful summary of how much he contributed to our nation [COVER STORY, July 7]. It also served as a reminder of how rare his seven "great virtues"--aversion to tyranny, support for a free press, a sense of humor, humility, idealism in foreign policy, tolerance and respect for compromise--are in the leaders of today in their response to the challenges of the post-9/11 world. Franklin's fundamental scientific approach, in which conclusions are drawn after testing hypotheses, is an important additional virtue. This philosophy is quite different from that...
Hackers have attacked Harvard’s computer systems a multitude of times over recent weeks, resulting in a printer server downtime for a day last week and several hours of reduced Internet access on campus Tuesday, according to Director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services Franklin M. Steen...
...included senior editor Christopher John Farley, art director Tom Miller, photo editor Robert Stevens and correspondent Andrea Dorfman. As part-time historians, our journalists are following a Time Inc. tradition. It was 50 years ago that our founder Henry Luce made a donation that launched The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, the Yale-based project that is about to produce its 37th volume. Ten more volumes are expected. We hope you'll find our portrait of the man as fascinating as he was prolific...