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...science would teach people how to love and to work. Like most great notions, this one is simple to express but difficult to realize. Just how difficult is the subject of Richard Rhodes' account of his deprived childhood and struggle to escape its consequences. It is a story of modest dimensions but classic proportions, involving orphans, a wicked stepmother, lifesaving benefactors and years of psychoanalysis. It is a story that is painful to read and hard to put down...
...settlement of $1 billion to $2 billion, think Polaroid will appeal the decision and seek higher damages. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst for Morgan Stanley: "In terms of the amount of sales and patents involved, it doesn't seem very big." Many experts viewed the ruling as a modest victory for Kodak, which might have been forced to sell off assets if the award had exceeded $1 billion...
Sitting in an armchair in the green-carpeted living room of his modest wood- frame house, Ellis, 55, sees nothing unusual about the way he brought up his boys. He never urged them to become musicians, he says, but made sure they were exposed to music and got top-level training once they showed an interest. "It wasn't any messianic thing. They had lots of teachers...
...image as a shy, decent man who likes old cars, black-and-white television sets and the Boston Red Sox. During the confirmation hearings, Souter, 51, slept on an extra bed at the apartment of his mentor, New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman; soon he will settle into a modest one-bedroom apartment that the Justice-to-be found, with Rudman's help, within walking distance of the court. Souter's few sticks of furniture and more numerous stacks of books will be trucked down by friends from Weare, N.H., after the Justice takes his oath of office this week. "Nearly...
...very modest, humble and unselfish man... He is always quick to praise the work of others around him while diverting the limelight away from himself...