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...blurbs on the back cover of The End of Equality ttry to paint Kaus' message as a radical departure from American political practice. Author Lawrence Mead goes so far as to name Kaus "the inventor of Civic Liberalism. "But despite the book-jacket bluster, Kaus' solution is as old as America itself. Alexis de Tocqueville considered strong civic ties to be the cornerstone of democracy, and the activists of the French Revolution even reorganized the calendar in order to squeeze class rivalry out of late-eighteenth-century society. Kaus' philosophy is nothing...
...22nd century. If Smith and Keller -- two smart, practical fellows who cared about the environment -- could develop a process to burn coal cleaner and at a price that was competitive with Middle East oil, they could help fill a national need and win themselves a place alongside great American inventor-entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. And maybe strike it rich in the bargain. After all, that's the American Dream...
Birkenstocks, named for their German inventor, were first brought to America in 1966 and sold through a health food store...
Robert Kearns has a clear view from his car window to the bank, thanks to a federal jury in Detroit. Last week Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, was awarded $11.3 million for patent infringement by Chrysler. The carmaker must pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it equipped with the wipers from 1977 to '88. Kearns, who won a similar judgment from Ford in 1990 for $10.2 million, has lawsuits pending against General Motors and 17 other carmakers...
...Newton, Mass, inventor andentrepreneur gives Harvard Medical School itslargest gift ever from an individual, creating afund which will provide grants to talling $550,000annually...