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John Adams, who graduated from Harvard in 1755, was the second U.S. president and one of Massachusetts’ founding fathers. His wife, Abigail Adams, has long been recognized as a pioneer feminist in Revolutionary America...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Letters of Love From 1776 to 2007 | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...Shaklee was a pioneer of the green movement and had probably the longest-term, most loyal consumers of any consumer product I've seen, but it was a secret to many other people," says Barnett, who acknowledges that although he'd heard of the company back in the 1980s, when it was publicly traded in the U.S. and listed on the Fortune 500, he didn't know exactly what Shaklee made. "But this is a trillion-dollar industry. Shaklee's growth potential was unlimited," he says. "And in the long run, I think it's more fun and rewarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting the Green Into Clean | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...free. The freeborn (the "sterling") were bitterly opposed to giving up their social placement above the ex-convicts and their children (the "currency"). But the "lower orders"--that is, most 19th century Australians--fiercely resented the pretensions of the nobs and were well aware that in a pioneer environment Lady Luck was a more powerful queen than Victoria Regina. This was rammed home after the discovery of gold in Ballarat in 1851, just after the California gold rush. "All the aristocratic feelings and associations of [England]," wrote John Sherer, an observer of the gold rush in 1853, "are at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

Nora Volkow Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and pioneer in the science of addiction I'd select the Duke University scientist whose pioneering work in epigenetics and genomic imprinting has uncovered a vast territory in which a gene represents less of an inexorable sentence and more of an access point for the environment to modify the genome. The trailblazing discoveries of Dr. Randy Jirtle have produced a far more complete and useful understanding of human development and diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...genetic material Harvard researchers recently extracted from the London dodo carcass. Their analysis? Genetically speaking, “It’s basically a big fat pigeon,” said Berry, who co-authored the book “DNA: The Secret of Life” with genetics pioneer James D. Watson. “If we were to stick it into a chicken genome, it wouldn’t be a chicken with a dodo’s face or that sort of manipulation, but it would be fascinating.”Berry said it would probably...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ode to a Faux Dodo | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

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