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He has PSA tests every four months now. "It's an unusual thing. Most cancers don't have scorecards," he says. "But here you go and give blood, and a day later, they tell you the rest of your life basically." Andy Grove, face to face with death three times...
Andras Grof was born on Sept. 2, 1936, in Budapest, the son of George, the dairyman, and Maria, a bookkeeping clerk. His father, a gregarious, easygoing man with a strong, logical mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small...
The logical solution was to replace the tubes: build a device that performed the same role--storing electrical charges--but that was less temperamental. The device was an electrical "switch" called a transistor, essentially a tiny electrical gate that controlled the flow of electrons that computers needed to do their...
Logically enough, if your definition of the logical encompasses the inherent illogic of human passion. For gangly Oscar, nervous yet nervy in Fiennes' gloriously addled performance, is a gambling man. Gambling is an activity that, as he sees it, permits him leaps and tests of faith, with all his winnings...
What helped was another police beating, 3,000 miles away. Seven days after Colbert's encounter, the nation's attention shifted from Kuwait to Los Angeles, where Rodney King had been beaten senseless by a gang of vengeful cops. As weeks passed and police everywhere pondered the King horror, the...