Word: inventors
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...Couldn't you space out those remarkable folks - say, five per issue? Jason McCloskey Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Once again, your list of influentials is peppered with people whose impact - if any - does not go beyond the borders of the U.S. I agree that Americans such as Condoleezza Rice, software inventor Bram Cohen and to a limited extent New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer have achieved breakthroughs that the rest of the world can care about. I was not impressed, however, by your choice of Senate majority leader Bill Frist, Wal-Mart ceo Lee Scott and, goodness, actor Jamie Foxx...
...33rd International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland, at which 1,000 new products from 42 countries vied for attention, creative innovations stood side by side with wacky eccentricities. The grand prize was awarded, boringly, to a device that cleans boat hulls, while the audience prize went to the inventor of a motorcycle air bag. But what other gadgeteers attracted stares (and maybe a few snickers)? A quick peek...
...This digital pair of glasses, worn here by the inventor, uses audio input to provide navigational assistance to the blind or visually impaired
Tony Baekeland grew up with two competing family identities. His great-grandfather, Leo Baekeland, was the inventor of Bakelite and the "father of plastics." His parents fancied themselves aristocrats. They socialized with Greta Garbo and Tennessee Williams, the Duchess of Sutherland and Yasmin Aga Khan. But they were vagabonds, getting by on good looks, lordly manners and copious spending. Brooks Baekeland was a self-proclaimed writer who never published. His wife was an artist too busy to paint. Each of them had a love of danger and a propensity for violence. Each seemed more interested in boasting of Tony...
...everyone here in the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee is aware, this singular citizen--unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated--is the inventor, host, chief writer and principal song-and-dance man of an astonishing radio show called A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio each Saturday at 5 p.m. Midwestern time. Usually it originates from the World Theater in St. Paul, but during renovations there, the program is on the road, tonight in Milwaukee. It is now 4:57½, and Keillor is cranking up to do his first live broadcast in five weeks. He flaps about looking distracted...