Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard accepted its own chair of Turkish studies, founded by the Vehbi Koc Foundation, according to the Harvard Gazette. History Professor Cemal Kafadar was the first Vehbi Koc Professor. The foundation is named after a Turkish industrialist and philanthropist...
...tales about growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining characters from his past talking about race, religion and class. "It wasn't writing," he says. "It was dictation...
Thousands of miles away in Africa, retired industrialist Noel de Villiers is aiming to set up a contiguous chain of cross-border ecotourism parks and nature reserves linking protected areas from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. Known as the Open Africa Initiative and endorsed by former South African President Nelson Mandela, the project hopes to bring local communities directly into the global tourist market, but it's still largely a dream. The goal is for tourism income from the parks to be plowed back into community development. "What we're saying is that it's about time that...
...more. Bigger gifts from women appear to track bigger earnings by women, who now own a third of all privately held businesses (their numbers grew 90% in the past decade), employing more people than the FORTUNE 500 companies combined. Tanny Crane, 42, grew up watching her industrialist father giving money to charity while her housewife mother gave time. But now Crane is chief executive of the family's $150 million-a-year plastics company in Columbus, Ohio, and gives more than $50,000 a year to her favorite charities, like a local children's advocacy group. "I earned the money...
...Bavarian industrialist, Mengele joined the Nazi Party in the 1930s and began studying the sham science of "racial hygiene." In 1943 he became medical chief at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he sent more than 400,000 non-Aryan prisoners to the gas chambers. On the side, he engaged in all manner of experimental butchery--dripping chemicals into prisoners' eyes to see if he could turn them a more Reich-pleasing blue, exposing others to infectious diseases to watch how different races respond to pathogens...