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...Staff writer Margot E. Edelman can be reached at medelman@fas.harvard.edu...
...head of NHTSA during the Carter Administration and now the president of Public Citizen, Joan Claybrook has been at the forefront of efforts to improve auto safety over the past few decades. With NHTSA due to issue new rules concerning black boxes for cars, Claybrook spoke to TIME's Margot Roosevelt about why she thinks the requiring all cars to have data recorders is such a good idea - and why the privacy concerns are being overblown...
...last remaining trove of Albert Einstein's personal family letters is being opened to the public this week. They had been closely held by his stepdaughter Margot Einstein, who decreed that they remain sealed for 20 years after her death. Some of the letters are being published by Princeton University Press in the 10th volume produced by the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, and they are a revelation. "Einstein's private correspondence refutes the simplistic view of him as an isolated, remote man who immersed himself in his work at the expense of human contact," says general editor Diana Kormos...
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Shearer's Royal Ballet colleague Margot Fonteyn was by 1948 the world's top ballet dancer. Her grace, sense of drama and ability to remain en pointe for seemingly minutes on end won her wide acclaim (and the cover of TIME). Later, when she was in her 40s, she found new life and a new lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips...