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Bell comes of faithful stock: his parents met at Wheaton College, known as the Evangelical Harvard. But his first ambition was to be David Letterman. ("The birth of irony," he jokes. "The Betamax was a portal to another world.") Next came rock. As a student at Wheaton, he fronted a...
They epitomize Bell's trademark combination of deep cultural savviness and deeper piety. Unlike others currently posing fundamental questions, notes Crouch, Bell will "come out on the other side with something to proclaim." Thus Bell derides a "score card" approach to sin. Rather, he maintains that once you've converted...
Five years ago, British scientist Colin Pillinger convinced the world's biggest medical-research charity, the Wellcome Trust, to bet on a project far beyond its usual scope: a probe to find life on Mars. Detecting life on other planets, he argued, would be a giant leap for mankind toward...
A life-saving device spawned from space design could also help planetary researchers justify their funding. "People always tell you space missions produce spin-offs," says Pillinger. But, in reality, they yield few applications in everyday industry. With portable GCMS, "Everywhere we go, people say, 'I can see an application...
To understand Brabeck's strategy of cost-efficient global growth, unwrap a Kit Kat. Nestle acquired the chocolate-covered wafer bar in 1988 when it bought Britain's Rowntree. Today it's a $1 billion business, says Patrice Bula, head of the chocolate division at Nestle headquarters, and the company...