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...Ginger The world of technology has never been short of eccentrics and obsessives, of rich, brilliant oddballs with strange habits and stranger hobbies. But even in this crowd, Dean Kamen stands out. The 50-year-old son of a comic-book artist, he is a college dropout, a self-taught physicist and mechanical engineer with a handful of honorary doctorates, a multimillionaire who wears the same outfit for every occasion: blue jeans, a blue work shirt and a pair of Timberland boots. With the accent of his native Long Island, he speaks slowly, passionately--and endlessly. "If you ask Dean...
...create a meal that is satisfying and healthy. Putting steaming bowls on a table, even a wobbly dorm-room coffee table, does make me a little bit proud. It’s the cooking part itself, however, that I like the most. For so long I have been taught to obsess over food, whether I am eating too much or the wrong kind, and this breeds an obsessive focus on food because it is forbidden in so many forms...
...Religion is a major issue in the way Darwinism is taught,” Wells responded. “Only [the way it is taught] is an attack on religion...
...sides believe that certain values—civic, moral or religious—should be taught in school, and they recognize the classroom’s impact on the moral outlook of America’s children. Most parents want nothing more dearly than to ensure that their children grow up to be men and women of integrity, honesty, industry and charity...
Needless to say, this has thrown the senior class into a bit of a frenzied tizzy. Throughout our four years here, Harvard has taught us that success is an infinite race for, simply, more—more activities, more straight As, more friends, more leadership titles. We students create much of this environment ourselves, which only perpetuates and exacerbates the problem. Thus, come time of graduation and of finding a job, our Harvard-bred mentality encourages us in a specific direction: to follow the money—and if you can’t secure that, than to at least...