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DIED. GLADYS TANTAQUIDGEON, 106, medicine woman and oldest living Mohegan; in Uncasville, Conn. An expert on ancient-culture preservation, she collected tribal correspondence as well as old birth and marriage records that documented the tribe's history long after its reservation had disbanded. Her efforts helped boost the dwindling Mohegans into a federally recognized, 1,700-member tribe that now runs the successful Connecticut casino Mohegan...
...have grown for nine consecutive years, and sales surged 34.6% in the second quarter of this year, to $343 million. "Because of that growth, every company and their mother is trying to get into selling a line of clothing to women in their 40s, or 35 plus," says marketing expert Chung. "No one paid attention to this age bracket before...
DIED. W. EDWARDS DEMING, 93, American industrial-efficiency expert and guru of the postwar Japanese economic miracle; in Washington. Deming was a modern illustration of the biblical truth that a prophet is without honor in his own land. Educated in mathematics and physics, he worked with Bell Labs' Walter Shewhart during the 1930s developing quality-control theories that stressed achieving uniform results during production rather than through inspection at the end of the production line. During World War II Deming successfully ; applied his approach to the making of airplane parts. Ignored by postwar American industry, the irascible Deming took...
...other professors who have been offered tenure specialize in an array of fields. Brent H. Edwards, currently at Rutgers, is an expert on African-American literature. Stanford political scientist Claudine Gay is especially concerned with minority politics. Saidiya Hartman, currently a UC-Berkeley English professor, specializes in feminism and psychoanalysis in African-American contexts, as well as visual arts in African-American culture. Finally, Jacob K. Olupuna, of UC-Davis, studies African traditional religion, West African society and culture, and African religion in the Americas...
...break room (to table-shaking effect), and a mobster get stabbed in the eye with a shattered light bulb. On Monday night, in a particularly laughable scene, we found out from his psychiatrist that the show’s hero Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is, through a jumble of expert technical terms, very smart and empathetic. Scofield, you see, intentionally landed himself in the big house in order to hatch an intricate plan to spring his wrongfully-convicted brother before said brother’s scheduled execution. You’re a genius, doc! But then, in the midst...