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...popular computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he delivered his "Last Lecture" on Sept. 18, 2007. It became an Internet sensation, with a global audience charmed by his easy manner and insight, in awe of his complete lack of self-pity. It was as though he already knew more than he should, had dipped a ways into eternity and brought back some pieces for the rest of us to use in whatever ways and for whatever time we can. The end of the lecture, it turned out, was just the beginning...
...days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I got a chilling insight into the brutality of his rule, in the most unexpected place - the compound of the Iraqi sports ministry. In one corner of a sprawling complex of offices and official residences, behind walls emblazoned with the universal symbol of the Olympic Games, was that most medieval of torture devices: an iron maiden...
...their skeletons in a cave where they hid. "The last people to touch these items before our colleagues in Israel's museums," says Opper, "were the people awaiting Hadrian's onslaught." These humble objects - perfectly preserved in the desert heat - may be quotidian, yet they offer as resonant an insight into Hadrian's world as the exquisitely refined statues that he commissioned to memorialize the love he had lost...
...South Africa (and a favorite of Mandela's) and was the powerful head of the National Union of Mineworkers when Mandela was released. Kathrada is both a lifelong freedom fighter and friend of Mandela's who spent those long and lonely years in prison by Mandela's side. Their insight into his leadership skills and style is invaluable...
...itself has absolutely nothing to do with technology - it's a Hamlet-like tale about a mute boy who raises a special (and fictional) breed of dogs on a farm in Wisconsin. Yet Wroblewski says that being a software writer helped him craft the novel and gave him some insight into the mechanics of breaking down the project into manageable components, and seeing it through...