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...home at age 14 and went on to dominate the American potato business. He supplied U.S. troops with dried food during World War II and sold French fries to fast-food chains, but the Idaho native also invested in cattle, fertilizer plants and timber--not to mention computer-chip pioneer Micron Technology. The oldest billionaire in the world last year, according to Forbes, Simplot remained ambitious--and proud--driving around Boise in a white Lincoln Town Car with mr. spud vanity plates...
...websites like Craigslist and eBay. What's more, it would help authorities locate people in roadside emergencies or if they're reported missing, much like GM's OnStar service. "Two-way connectivity is definitely on our roadmap," says Larry Rougas, vice president of marketing and product planning for Pioneer, which specializes in high-end navigation devices with large screens. Until then, you're on your own when it comes to keeping your GPS from ending up in the wrong hands...
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who continues to be a pioneer of research into addiction...
...says, describing the advantages of playing with well-known figures in jazz. A music concentrator, Schachter also notes that guest artists help students understand the intensity of work necessary to make a life as a musician. Schachter, who has played with clarinetist Don Byron, singer Jon Hendricks, Latin jazz pioneer Eddie Palmieri, trumpeter Brian Lynch, drummer Bobby Sanabria, and pianist Geri Allen, also notes a more ephemeral benefit. “There’s this kind of energy or magic that comes out of meeting someone who’s doing what you’re interested in doing...
...that his painful piano lessons never could. We discover later that Vale only took up the piano in hopes of connecting to his dead wife, a classical pianist.The scenes of Vale playing the drums are the strongest in the movie. Tarek introduces him to the music of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, invites him to jazz clubs, and brings him to play with a group of drummers in Central Park. In these scenes, Vale’s reserved, curmudgeonly self gives way, slowly, to a more expressive man.Soon, however, Tarek is arrested in the subway and taken to a detention facility...