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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wise, 41, may be poised to become as important an inventor and entrepreneur as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. His red contact lenses are already on 100,000 chickens nation-wide, and his company, Animalens Inc., is growing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Entrepreneur Wants a Lens in Every Chicken | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...first time earthlings could see their home as a whole, and NASA's pictures said with stunning force what neither words nor theories could adequately convey: life has radically transformed this numinous sphere. The heart-stopping beauty of the earth set against the dark void of space earned inventor-scientist James Lovelock the first adherents to a theory that appears to reconcile science and religion in the study of life on earth. Lovelock's idea, named the Gaia hypothesis after the ancient earth goddess of the Greeks, is that the planet is alive and functions as a superorganism in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: How The Earth Maintains Life | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Galbraith's two previous novels were The Triumph, the story of a Central American dictator, and The McLandress Dimension, a tale of an inventor who, among other projects, creates a method of classifying people by the amount of time they spend not thinking about themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith Writes Third Novel | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

BOSTON--A new appliance that can chill beer, freeze ice cream and cook pizza has college students clamoring, and the inventor, a former computer sales agent, crossing his fingers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talented Gadget Hits Market | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...ways, the final clubs set the tone for a lot of the attitudes towards women. Coming to the most prestigious learning institution in the nation, you might think that acquaintance and date rape wouldn't be problems here. These are "Harvard Men," after all. But then, so was the inventor of napalm...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Cope With the Egos | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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