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...distinguished educator to take money from the purveyor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game may seem like the American Cancer Society soliciting funds from a cigarette company. But Papert has always been a maverick. In his seminal book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, he advocates a self-motivated approach to education that gives as much importance to the lessons learned in computer play as those drilled home in textbooks. He has received funding in the past from the National Science Foundation, IBM and Lego Systems...
SLAC. Burton Richter, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is the maverick of particle physics. While others have recently concentrated on circular accelerators, he has touted the merits of linear models. His latest machine shoots streams of electrons and positrons down a straightaway and then loops them through two semicircular sections onto a collision course. Linear accelerators cannot produce nearly as many collisions as do circular models of comparable power, but Richter claims that the noncircular approach can be an economical way to make discoveries in the vanguard of physics...
...maverick Marvin is the strongest satiric vehicle, and the true center of action. He learns to index irrational investment expectations, and with the prodding of a liberal-minded wife, he finds over-optimistic companies. He borrows stock in them and then sells it. And when the company fails, the professor replaces the stock at its original prices, keeping the difference...
...Maverick billionaire H. Ross Perot doesn't buy that. "The '80s is the decade that we gave away our industrial lead and acted totally irresponsibly in wrecking some of our big corporations through leveraged buyouts," he says. "We felt affluent because we were living off borrowed money. We've got to clean up education, clean up the deficit, clean up the drugs, clean up the justice system, clean up industry. But right now it's like Lawrence Welk music: it's just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And nobody will fix it before it breaks...
...chiefs, only Ceausescu dared to order his security forces to shoot after Gorbachev had made it clear that the Soviet army would not back them up. But then Ceausescu for many years had set himself apart from his East bloc brethren. He was cheered by the West as the "maverick" of the Pact and praised for his refusal to allow Soviet troops on his soil, to participate in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 or to support the Soviet war in Afghanistan...