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Scientists, naturally, won't be rushing for a visit. William Etges, an evolutionary biologist at the nearby University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, dismisses the museum's version of history as "utterly irrelevant to what we actually know and understand about our world." But the museum's president, G. Thomas Sharp, whose doctorate in the philosophy of religion and science was awarded by a Florida seminary, says the exhibits are intended to counter a lamentable shift in public education to what he calls "a very secular, pagan base," arguing that "the biblical explanation to earth science is very feasible and very...
...easy for Katsuhiko Machida, the president of Sharp Corp., to look back and laugh now, given that he's running Japan's hottest electronics company. But for years he was despondent, wondering if Sharp would forever be overshadowed by giants like Sony, Matsushita and Samsung. When he ran Sharp's television business in the 1980s, Machida says the firm had trouble competing because it didn't manufacture the most important TV component, the cathode-ray tube. Forced to cobble together parts bought from competitors, Sharp was essentially an assembler, cranking out televisions that were always a little too expensive...
...when Machida became president in 1998, it all began to change. Sharp, he knew, had long excelled at developing products featuring liquid crystal displays (LCDs). It released the first mass-market LCD calculator in 1973, developed its first flat-panel LCD television in 1987, and dabbled in LCD televisions throughout the 1990s. Building on this head start, Machida moved LCD TVs to the forefront of Sharp's strategy. He spent heavily over three years on the design, manufacture and marketing of a new flagship TV brand dubbed Aquos?and his bet paid off. Launched in January 2001?a moment referred...
...really, really clever,” Downing says. “You meet a lot of smart people at Harvard, but Dave is extraordinarily smart. He’s really sharp...
Nathan A. Sharp ’08, who met Woodship Walter once through the freshman seminar Paintings & Painters, recalled that Stanul became “really excited” when cutting wood; Stanul reportedly told them to stay back, adding animatedly that the wood “might fly off! Like a bullet! Like a bullet...