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Frank and Lisa Smoot, a San Jose couple who missed their connecting flight to New Hampshire, thought they'd use the downtime afforded them to scope out the scene for themselves. "We're bored to death of sitting around the airport, so I thought we'd check it out," Frank says shortly after his wife snapped a digital photo of him giving a thumbs-up next to the bathroom sign. "It's just so bizarre to think that I can go stand next to where one of our 100 Senators met his political demise...
...Physics winners George Smoot of U.C.-Berkeley and John Mather of NASA have long feuded over discoveries they made while both were at NASA trying to prove the Big Bang theory. Mather was infuriated when Smoot, in 1992, announced some results of their collaborative research in what Mather alleged was a grab for solo glory. But after they won the prize last week, the pair seemed buddy-buddy again. Nothing brings people together like shiny gold medals and a check for $1.4 million...
...only that, Keynes' Londoner "regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement." It was not to be. World War I brought the modern world's first great era of globalization to a jarring halt; trade atrophied, and legislation like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs passed by the U.S. Congress in 1930 gave a legislative imprimatur to protectionist sentiment...
...Here are my top ten reasons why:10. Unleash your creativity: Teaching doesn’t have to fit the stereotype presented in that classic movie of 1986 (anyone? anyone?): “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” No topic (except perhaps the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act) can prevent good teachers from constructing lesson plans that pique their students’ curiosity. All-star educators can explain the difference between capitalism and communism with a bag of M&M’s and can start any history lesson with an article from the day?...
...enormous extent of the President's memory impresses me," says Morris. On almost any subject from the past half-century that Morris has raised, Reagan has had an observation based on firsthand experience: the Depression, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the rise of fascism, name it. Nothing escapes Morris' scrutiny. He has become convinced, for instance, that that lush, indestructible head of dark hair plays a part in the imagery of perpetual Reagan youth and thus in his remarkable leadership...