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...Noyce was fed up with Fairchild. The firm was blowing up: engineers were leaving, top execs didn't understand the semi business, and science was being replaced by politics. Noyce phoned Arthur Rock, now the eminence grise of Silicon Valley investing, and told him that he and Moore wanted to start their own semiconductor company. Fairchild, he said, was finished. Rock (who holds nearly $500 million of Intel stock today) raised the money nearly instantly. Moore told Grove of the plan one day when they were at a conference in Boulder, Colo. The decision to join his bosses was made...
...Secret Service; Donald R. Leonard, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Alan Gerald Whicher, assistant special agent in charge, U.S. Secret Service; Cynthia Lynn Campbell-Brown Special, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Kenneth Glenn McCullough, special agent, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Paul Douglas Ice, special agent, U.S. Customs Service; Claude Arthur Medearis, special agent, U.S. Customs Service; and Paul G. Broxterman, special agent, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General...
...there was ever an artist in the American grain, it was Arthur Dove (1880-1946), with his obstinate home-made lyricism, his complete authenticity and his desire to be modern on local--not Euro-imitative--terms. In the beautiful Dove retrospective now at the Phillips Collection in Washington--which will move on to New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in January--one sees all this and more. It has been a long time since the last museum survey of Dove's work, and Debra Bricker Balken, who curated this one, has done an exceptional artist full justice...
...that the transcript has come to light, secrecy and obfuscation still pervades in the armed forces. "It would seem morally wrong to gather prospective or retrospective data on the efficacy of unproven drugs in military volunteers facing exposure to biological or chemical weapons," the ethics committee chairman, Col. Arthur Anderson, told the Plain Dealer. Translation: If veterans really contracted Gulf War syndrome via an Army needle, this was one serious screw...
...Fashion History. The clue is: It was the 49ers going to the Gold Rush by boat who gave this hat its name. This was the final question that Harvard Medical School first-year Wes Ulm missed in his fifth Jeopardy! match in June of this year. But fellow contestant Arthur M. Phillips '90 came up with the right question: "What is a Panama...