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...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," she says. "I've never had any discomfort writing a check...
...Verne's novel asks of Fogg: "What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you?" The names Piccard and Jones may not strike the same chords as Columbus or Magellan or Lindbergh or Armstrong. Indeed, last weekend's achievement is literally lighter than air. But Piccard and Jones have won the last world-spanning contest of our era. And now they are history...
...experts, were those concerning the relative influence of thinkers vs. tinkerers--those who work mainly inside their own mind vs. those who turn their mind to practical things. In some centuries the tinkerers are more influential. The 15th, for example, was important for Gutenberg building his printing press and Columbus setting sail; the 19th for Fulton and his steamboat, Morse and his code, Bell and his telephone, Edison and his light bulb. But in other centuries the pure thinkers were more influential. The 17th, for example, boasted Newton, Galileo, Descartes and Locke...
...discovery of an 11th century Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, confirms that Europeans reached the New World centuries earlier than Columbus...
...Coach Jim O'Brien and guard James "Scoonie" Penn both came to Columbus, Ohio, from Beantown...