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Among the most controversial claims in Stiffed is Faludi's defense of the Spur Posse, a group of male high school students in the early 1990s who engaged in a sex-for-points contest that rocked their Lakewood, Calif., community and received national media attention...
Lewis and Clark, Einstein, Galileo, Edison and test pilots are risk takers, as are BASE jumpers and other devotees of extreme sports. But there is a crucial difference. Society gets no benefit from the latter group, who are solely concerned with selfish gratification. GILBERT STORK Englewood...
TIME's coverage of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when we name a single figure as the Person of the Century. To help the magazine's editors make the choice, we are asking a select group of people to tell us whom they would pick. Here is the latest intriguing nomination...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The ultimate test of the impact of an individual or a group of individuals is twofold: whether the world they left is qualitatively different from that which they inherited, and what contribution they made to that change. By this standard, the seminal event of the 20th century is the scientific revolution. Einstein's theories of relativity, followed by discoveries by other scientists in the field of quantum mechanics, toppled the existing view of the universe and opened the way to discoveries that eclipse all previous scientific achievements of recorded history...
From Linda Kellogg, if you're lucky. Kellogg is no VC, but in some ways she's just as indispensable. Working as the director of human resources at Venture Law Group, she was constantly being tapped for advice by 28-year-old wonder-boy CEOs. "Here's this very bright Harvard M.B.A., who just got $12 million, asking me where to get phones," she recalls. Hello, business plan...