Word: pioneers
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...universal education, and the fact that both have existed concurrently may account for the low status of teachers. In America it is not enough to be smart; one must compensate for one's intelligence by also showing the canniness and real-world power of the cowboy and the pioneer. Einstein did this. He was the first modern intellectual superstar, and he won his stardom in the only way that Americans could accept--by dint of intuitive, not scholarly, intelligence and by having his thought applied to practical things, such as rockets and atom bombs...
...entrepreneur, at 35 you are the fourth youngest individual ever, preceded by 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh in 1927; Queen Elizabeth II, who made the list in 1952 at age 26; and Martin Luther King Jr., who was 34 when he was selected in 1963. A pioneer, royalty and a revolutionary--noble company for the man who is, unquestionably, king of cybercommerce...
...named Pierre Omidyar, now 32. In the summer of 1995 Omidyar's fiance (now wife) Pam, who collected Pez dispensers, was bemoaning how hard it was to find other people to trade with in the San Francisco Bay Area. Omidyar was already an e-commerce pioneer (Microsoft eventually bought out eShop, a company he co-founded), but lately he had been wrestling with how the Internet could be used to create fairer markets. The Pez dilemma led Omidyar to the flash of an idea: an Internet auction site could function as the ultimate efficient market...
...remind us that TV didn't have to be that way. The show was spawned in the earnest mid-'60s, before popular culture swallowed up the middlebrow and "educational TV" became a comical oxymoron. During last week's taping, Buckley told his guests about David Susskind, the talk pioneer from the 1950s who was host of a show called Open End. "Every night he'd go on the air with some guests at 9," Buckley said, "and he'd keep going--an hour, two hours, three--until he got bored...
Peanuts' first incarnation was as a single-panel strip named "Li'l Folks" in The St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947. It first appeared as a syndicated multi-panel strip Oct. 2, 1950, in seven daily U.S. newspapers; it now appears in over 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries and 21 languages worldwide. The comic has spun off television specials, memorabilia and a Broadway play. Schulz' final daily strip will run Jan. 3, and his last Sunday strip will...