Word: vacationers
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They were kindred minds as well as spirits. On a vacation to Brazil, he took James Watson's 1,100-page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at...
They broke up in 1987, partly because Winblad, five years older, was more ready for marriage. But they remain close friends. "When I was off on my own thinking about marrying Melinda," Gates says, "I called Ann and asked for her approval." She gave it. "I said she'd be...
Another of Gates' vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s. They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities...
Benefit number three requires a little bit of foresight. As hard as it is to imagine now, come May the weather will be warm. And once again, while we are in finals, our friends at other, more considerate universities will be reveling in the first days of summer vacation. Although...
As overwhelming as these benefits seem, there are some perks to the present system. The clearest one is reading period. If we wanted to have two weeks of reading period before finals, a luxury few other colleges offer, as well as finish before Christmas, we would have to start approximately...