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...thought, and downplays the roles of great men and political events, which he labeled "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs"; in Saint-Gervais, France. Through two masterworks, his classic The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal Annales from 1956 to 1968, Braudel and his eclectic methods came to dominate French historiography, and substantially influenced scholars in Britain and the U.S. as well...
...from Cornell, Caltech and M.I.T. They contend that Star Wars research is high-tech hocus-pocus that will escalate the arms race. Some scientists suggest that because the protest has been centered at elite universities, SDI research is being done at less prestigious places. Huffs Princeton's Nobel Physicist Philip Anderson: "People who are hungry and need funding are going to lap up the money. They're out there, people from East Podunk Univerity, while the first-raters are signing the pledge...
...feel more sexy, more virile, and it helps me get into character," says Ford Model Philip Sturgeon, who has appeared, whiskers bristling, in magazine layouts and ad campaigns for Levi's and Macy's California. In the words of Wilhelmina Artists' Agent Christopher Mertz, "Now it's a commodity, it's a look the clients can bank on." Says New York Casting Director Billy Serow: "A couple of years ago, it was the James Garner-Mariette Hartley look. Today, if you're dealing with anything hip, Miami Vice is the prototype...
...HIRED. PHILIP COONEY, 45, former oil-industry lobbyist who, as a White House environmental adviser, came under fire from environmentalists when it was revealed that he had edited government scientific reports on global warming to downplay ecological threats; by ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, days after he resigned from the Administration...
...otherwise modern home will remain video-game-console-free. My children sometimes ask when we will get a game machine (the answer remains never), but most of the time they're very busy reading, playing with friends or creating their own imaginary adventures out in the backyard. Philip F. Newman Franklin, Tennessee...