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...moved to Africa. She worked for decades--painstakingly, methodically--in his shadow, but by the time Mary Leakey died last week, at 83, in Nairobi, Kenya, her scientific reputation had surpassed that of her more famous husband. "Louis was always the better publicist," says her son Richard, a world-class fossil hunter in his own right. "But Mary was the centerpiece of the research...
...said he hopes that Ellwood, Bane and a host of other social policy superstars will contribute to what he called a "world-class center" at the Kennedy School
According to Elaine M. Scarry, professor of English, Greenblatt is an influential figure in person as well as a world-class scholar...
...vengeance, and that's changing everything: how bands get heard, how performers develop followings, even how music gets distributed. In the past two years thousands of Websites catering to millions of fans have sprung into existence, from tiny one-computer home pages for garage bands in Montana to world-class monster sites like New York City-based N2K www.n2k.com) which offers thousands of titles, stages regular live Netcasts, and announced last week that it had hired legendary rock producer Phil Ramone to create a new, Net-oriented record label. "Music is the perfect resource to digitize," says N2K CEO Larry...
...interstate, as calmly as if they'd all been ordered to the outfield for some stretching drills. Behind them, stumbling in an effort to keep up, a pack of Atlanta boosters are shouting, "Hey, wait a minute...just a second now...you can't do this...this is a world-class city...