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...leadership went to a most unusual candidate: Stratis Haviaras, an administrative worker at Widener Library, who had quit school at age 12 during the Greek Civil War to work in construction...
...commerce struggle has also produced plenty of grizzled, cynical veterans. Take Janice Crotty, a San Francisco Web consultant. In the space of a single year, she helped give birth to two online ventures--and watched both of them pass away. In early 1999 Crotty quit her job and went without pay for five months to found a Web portal called iAuthentic.com That failed to attract venture funding, so she joined health site wholepeople.com which, in turn, was recently rescued by, and merged with, rival site Gaiam.com...
...firestorm. Watson, then head of NIH's part of the Human Genome Project (another part is under the Department of Energy), denounced the move as "sheer lunacy" that would cause paralyzing legal battles. When the dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with his first wife, were off running their own center, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in nearby Gaithersburg...
...hatched and sold as pets--somewhat bizarre. Riverkeeper president Robert Boyle fired Wegner, a consulting scientist, in December, when he discovered the 1995 conviction. But Kennedy secretly rehired Wegner, and at a board meeting this week, insisted that Wegner be kept on. Eight board members, including Boyle, quit in protest. "I was appalled," Boyle told the New York Times. Kennedy, who was convicted of a drug crime in the 1980s, replied, "Where would any of us be if we didn't get a second chance...
Like all long-term NPR folk, they don't care a lot about money. In 1973, Tom, sick of engineering for major corporations, quit his job and opened a do-it-yourself garage with his tinkering younger sibling, then a frustrated high school teacher. A few years later they were invited to be on a panel of mechanics on a local radio program; they soon had their own show. The brothers have been offered lucrative deals on commercial radio stations but turned them down because they seemed like a lot more work. "Most people have overestimated how much money they...