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Although manufacturers feared that the Vespa's popularity would be short-lived, within 10 years Piaggio had sold more than 1 million. The sexy little scooter was immortalized in the 1953 movie Roman Holiday as the vehicle of choice of the dolce vita set. And two decades later, it became the symbol of disenfranchised youth in Quadrophenia. Today it's still the low-cost, high-status alternative to cars in big cities and on college campuses. ?By James Scully
...Superiors often discouraged these women from careers in science, according to the panel members. Sidney C. Wolff, the first female director of a prominent U.S. observatory, was once told that aggressiveness, a necessity for being successful in the sciences, was unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” Aside from discrimination, Yale Professor of Physics C. Meg Urry struggled with the lack of role models...
...Born in Manhattan, Seidel majored in the classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Studying Greek democracy and the Roman republic, he says, created in him a “sense of commitment to the public good and public service.” By the time he came to Cambridge to attend the Graduate School of Design in 1999, he planned to bring his experience in the ivory tower into the public arena...
...group gave itself the nickname the Vulcans, for the Roman god of fire. For more details, see Rise of the Vulcans, by James Mann...
...Habeas Corpus Act confirmed the centuries-old right of a citizen not to be detained without trial. And 17th century trials operated under another time-honored principle: the presumption of innocence. As many jurists have observed, go back as far as you care to - beyond English common law, through Roman law, to the laws of Sparta and Athens - and that rule sparkles as the jewel of any legal code with pretensions to fairness and humanity...