Word: rubiner
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...Lincolns, Jim Sayre of Lawrenceburg, Ky., put it best: "A lot of people try to make him be what they want him to be." But the remarkable thing about Lincoln is that he is still remaking people himself. Take Jimmie Ray Rubin of Prosperity, W.Va. The 12th of 14 children, Rubin was born 73 years ago in a coal camp in nearby Lillybrook. He worked at a Laundromat and a newspaper to put himself through local colleges and eventually became a social worker. A veteran, Rubin also became commander of his American Legion post and a vets' advocate in Charleston...
...Rubin was never much of a reader, and upon his retirement, in 1995, he spent a lot of time on his five La-Z-Boys with ESPN. Fortuitously, in 1997 a presenter from Ohio--Ralph Borror, who runs abraham-lincoln.net--did a Lincoln event at a mall near Rubin's house. Rubin, who has Lincoln's protuberant nose, his scraggly eyebrows, his height (Rubin is 6 ft. 3 in.; Lincoln was 6 ft. 4 in.) and his beard--grown years ago--was surprised, and a bit envious, that someone over at the mall would pay a man to come down from...
...Celestron International, an optical-instruments firm in Torrance, Calif.: "The comet is an excuse for people to buy the telescope they've always wanted." American Express is offering a $799 telescope "for Halley's comet and beyond," which can be paid for in monthly installments of $39.95. Burton Rubin, who made a fortune in the '70s on his E-Z Wider cigarette-rolling papers, hopes for a repeat performance from his $200 Halleyscope, a wide-angle telescope that comes equipped with a tripod and Halley's comet handbook. He has already sold 10,000 Halleyscopes and expects to sell...
...every 200 miles or so as he circumnavigates the globe. Some 85% of the gene sequences he hauls up are unique to that site, suggesting that each 200-mile stretch of ocean represents a vastly different ecosystem. And that's just from scratching the surface, says JGI director Eddy Rubin: "There are whole domains of life that haven't been touched yet." --Reported by Melissa August/ Washington and Laura A. Locke/ Walnut Creek
...show, not tell. Moore is a terrific salesman for his point of view, but the new dockers avoid the omniscient narrator, who conjures up dusty memories of driver-safety films. "Documentaries used to have that should factor," says Dana Adam Shapiro, who co-directed Murderball with Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair. We've kicked away...