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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there's one thing Karim Rashid hates, it's trophies. The 40-year-old designer has more than 40 of them, from big international ones like the 1999 George Nelson Award (given for breakthrough furniture design), to quaint little Canadian ones like Designer of the Year 2001. "It came with a little pin," says Rashid, "and a...a...very nice..." He tries to describe the shape of the award with his hands but gives up. "It's time that whole trophy thing changes. It's kitsch. They're functionless things." Rashid was asked to design a trophy for the DaimlerChrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Poet Of Plastic | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...Nelson Y. Kiang, conference chair and HMS professor of physiology emeritus, characterized Harvard’s conservative medical institution as particularly “hostile” to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)—practices not commonly taught at medical schools or widely available in U.S. hospitals but widely available and trusted in China...

Author: By Sarah L. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese, U.S. Medical Leaders Discuss "Alternative Medicine" | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...status as a cooler-than-cool pop-culture icon was solidified by his appearance (shades and all) in the pantheon of heroes that populate the cover of the "Sgt. Pepper" album. Hill emphasizes that Southern created the "grand guy" persona to deal with an innate shyness; Southern's collaborator Nelson Lyon is quoted as saying that as Southern grew older, he became a victim of his alter ego, "trapped in the cliches and hip jargon" that defined him in the eyes of friends and colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Life and High Times of Terry Southern | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...problem with Yasser Arafat is that he's no Nelson Mandela." I've lost count of how many times I've head that complaint, both from Palestinians and Israelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfortunately, Arafat's No Nelson Mandela | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...born in Baltimore, Md. to Frederic Nelson '16, who worked for the Baltimore Sun and then moved to Philadelphia when he became editorial page editor of the Saturday Evening Post...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Covering the News From a Zany Angle of Her Own | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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