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...honorary degrees, including ones from Harvard and Yale, Welty was also recognized internationally. In 1987, France knighted her. Welty's autobiography, "One Writer's Beginnings" became the longest-running book on The New York Times' best-seller list in 1984. It described how the daughter of a Mississippi insurance salesman grew into an astute observer of human nature with a keen sense of place in story-telling. Welty translated that knowledge into essays, short stories, novels and photography over eight decades. Her first published story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," came in 1936. Her last book was "Church Courtyards," published...
...garish orange livery of Stelios Haji-Ioannou is spreading over Europe like a virus--and his competitors haven't found a cure. This natural-born salesman, a 34-year-old combination of the cerebral and the showman, of rich kid and hustler, has a knack for presenting the consumer with a cheap service that's free of the hassle and headache usually associated with discounts. He's applying the idea liberally across a growing number of businesses under the umbrella of easy--as in easyJet, easyRentacar and easyEverything...
...Tongchart's freezer holds 10 tons of boiled and freeze-dried giant water bugs, dung beetles, grasshoppers and a fine assortment of succulent worms. The 40-year-old former butcher and noodle salesman is president of United Insects of Phitsanulok, and that, he says, makes him the king bee in Thailand's estimated $50 million-a-year edible bug industry. "Business is so good that I don't have to deliver," he says. "If you want bugs, you come...
...most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice. Like a Socratic traveling salesman, he has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in thousands of college students who scarcely ever thought of thinking before...
...businessman who aided the Jangs, 48-year-old Moon, comes across as the hero of the affair. The former textile salesman has worked with refugees in China for five years, and has helped the Jangs since they first crossed the border. He met several times with UNHCR officials who urged him to take the family to Mongolia, he says, but he deemed the trip too dangerous after he heard reports of refugees getting arrested on that route. So instead of a quiet escape, he arranged for the family to take a 24-hour bus trip to the capital. (They went...