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...appointed four founding members: Nancy Kelem, a reader who canceled her TIME subscription owing to the indecency of my columns; Nancy's 87-year-old mother, who, not knowing about her daughter's feelings, keeps clipping out my columns and mailing them to her; Sandra Bernhard, who hung up on me during an interview and then called my boss demanding I be fired; and my mother, because she totally freaks every time I mention...
...prize widely considered the world's most prestigious, the Nobels had a surprisingly inauspicious beginning. Established under the will of 19th century munitions maker Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), it was as much an attempt to redeem the reputation of its founder--best known in his day as the inventor of dynamite--as to award the accomplishments of its recipients. Nobel, a pacifist who liked to write poetry, had intended his explosive to be used mostly for peaceful purposes and was dismayed that it became so powerful an instrument of war. In 1888 a French newspaper--thinking it was Alfred...
Library officials' main worry about the program is security, said Jeffrey A Bernhard, Widener Library's manager of operations and information technology services...
Library officials are also worried about the durability of the laptops, Bernhard said But given that they are some of the sturdiest on the market--they weigh over six pounds--Bernhard is optimistic that they will survive the wear and tear they will likely encounter...
With the help of his friend Marcel Grossmann, Einstein studied the theory of curved spaces and surfaces that had been developed by Bernhard Riemann as a piece of abstract mathematics, without any thought that it would be relevant to the real world. In 1913, Einstein and Grossmann wrote a paper in which they put forward the idea that what we think of as gravitational forces are just an expression of the fact that space-time is curved. However, because of a mistake by Einstein (who was quite human and fallible), they weren't able to find the equations that related...