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Henry Wickham wasn't smart, he wasn't rich, and he definitely wasn't lucky. What he was, was determined. In 1866, when he was 20, he sailed for the Amazon in search of exotic feathers for his mother's hat business back in London. That was a failure, like everything else he tried, but he caught the Amazon bug, and 10 years later he pulled off the one spectacular success of his life. In defiance of malaria, anacondas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, Confederate colonists, customs inspectors and Yanomamo tribesmen, he smuggled 70,000 priceless rubber-tree seeds...
University President Drew G. Faust, Dartmouth President James E. Wright, and Gutmann—who is the chair of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents, the governing body of the Ivy League athletic conference—will oversee the committee that will choose Orleans’ replacement. The search will begin this fall...
...dangerous to enshrine as an individual and inalienable right. All of these countries have blocked Internet access to various sites, including YouTube, within their borders. China frequently blocks web-surfers from visiting pages that refer to controversy over Tibet and Taiwan, and even has its own Wikipedia (search “Tiananmen Square” under China’s censored Wikipedia site and you’ll find out more than you ever wanted to know about the locale’s architecture). Restriction of freedom of expression through such form of media censorship is no new phenomenon...
...This was just a reaction to seeing events like these going on in larger cities,” says Gottesman. “Boston was missing out, even though it has the largest college-age population of any city.” Harvard students, often in search of social interactions that don’t require any actual interaction, eagerly attended. Ted A. Timothy ’11, joined by several friends, braved the trek from the Yard and was well rewarded for his effort. “It was really well done,” says Timothy...
...iAnxiety I am sure TIME did not mean to give Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Yahoo!'s Jerry Yang any more anxiety, but the imaginary "MicroHOO!" website you depicted apparently runs on Apple's Macintosh OSX, with Apple's Safari Web browser, complete with the built-in Google search field [Feb. 18]. Malcolm G. Ross, ANNANDALE...