Word: heinz
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Each year the Heinz Awards go to 10 headliners in a wide variety of disciplines - the arts and humanities, public policy, science and economics - ranging from writers like Dave Eggers to doctors like Paul Farmer. "We wanted to identify people who were full of promise," says Teresa Heinz, who created the awards after her then husband, Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, died in a helicopter crash in 1991. "We wanted to continue John's work...
...Though he made a living as an advertising designer, Heinz Edelmann, 75, is best known for creating the psychedelic look of Pepperland in the 1968 Beatles cartoon film Yellow Submarine, complete with dancing typography and music-hating villains called Blue Meanies...
...crisis born in part of the fact that households around the world took on too much debt. Wrong. Households in the U.S. took on too much debt, and the banks just encouraged them. We've got to face the music, but should not forget who provided the tune. Heinz Lichius, LAGESBÜTTEL, GERMANY
...researcher working for a government agency that manages the old communist regime's secret police records stumbled across the new information as she was carrying out research on another project. The former West Berlin cop, Karl-Heinz Kurras, has a bulging Stasi file of some 7,000 pages. Kurras, it turns out, was a member of the East German SED Communist Party as well as an active Stasi agent. He joined the West Berlin police at the age of 22 in 1950, but five years later he switched sides and went to the authorities in East Berlin. Kurras wanted...
...some want to take something away for themselves. They flatter and entreat, and it is engaging, even addictive. They look at our lives, which from the outside in particular are pictures of joy and plenty, and they want it for themselves. (Read an interview with Elizabeth Edwards and Teresa Heinz Kerry...