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...firm believer in this danger that the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him.) David Bjerklie and Unmesh Kher made sure the answers really were as smart as they seem. We were also fortunate to enlist Timothy Ferris (author of The Whole Shebang) and Matt Ridley (The Red Queen...
Matt Ridley is the author of The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue and Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
...chair in the living room while Rah and her daughter go into the other room to change. You look around. On the wall there's a platinum record Rah was awarded for her work on The Score. In the kitchen--it's a kitchenette, really--there's a Speed Queen washing machine sitting atop four bricks. In one of the two bedrooms--actually a bedroomette--there's a small wooden bunk bed. The living room--which is only a little larger than a changing room at Banana Republic--is dominated by a large black couch, a 52-in. Zenith projection...
King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were so pleased with the Hudson locomotive on the train that carried them across Canada on their 1939 royal tour that they granted the title Royal to a group of Hudson locomotives. One of these, Locomotive 2860, traveled proudly through British Columbia for 16 years before it was forced off the tracks by diesel engines. Rescued from the Winnipeg scrap yards by the government of British Columbia, 2860 was refurbished in 1974 and is now the only steam engine in regular mainline service in North America. Tom Savio, a former stationmaster...
DIED. FRED KELLY, 83, Broadway dancer and choreographer who taught his brother Gene to tap dance, gave ballroom-dancing lessons to Queen Elizabeth and helped a young John Travolta learn how to swivel his hips and improve his strut; in Tucson, Ariz...