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Among names stitched into Evans' work are Robert Fulton, often miscredited with inventing the steamboat but whose actual brilliance was in developing a market for river travel; Sam Colt, whose repeating revolver defeated foes of vastly superior numbers, was favored by Frank and Jesse James and set the standard for efficient mass production with interchangeable parts; and A.P. Giannini, whose Bank of America popularized mortgages and other loans for common folks...
...notion that the president mishandled Iraq is a particularly dubious assertion when coming from the mouth of John Kerry. In his speech at New York University last week, the senator said, “Five months ago, in Fulton, Missouri, I said that the President was close to his last chance to get it right… [w]e must act with urgency.” For all of Kerry’s urgency and insistence that the situation in Iraq has been mishandled, he seems completely unable to articulate a plan of action for Iraq five months after...
DIED. ROBERT E. FULTON JR., 95, adventurer and inventor, best known for circling the world on a motor-cycle in 1932; in Newton, Conn. With the encouragement of his wealthy father, who owned Mack Trucks, the young Fulton took his 18-month trip home after completing school in Vienna. He later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook...
...kitchens of Australia, 1968 was a year of revolution. While women's Libbers fled cooking's drudgery, career woman Margaret Fulton embraced its joys. Her eponymous cookbook, mixing standards like pot roast with exotic dishes like goulash, sold 1.5 million copies, lured Australians back to the stove and helped fire a national love affair with food. Now 80, Fulton has just released an updated edition. She talked to TIME's Elizabeth Feizkhah about timing, tidiness, and how to boil eggs...
...write the original Margaret Fulton cookbook? I wrote it as a family reference book - so my husband could boil an egg if I was away, or my daughter could cook if we were out. I think it was a discovery for her, that when she tried to make something it really turned...