He played a leading role in early laser research but today is best known for the 30-year struggle to secure US patent rights
He played a leading role in early laser research, but today is best known for the 30-year struggle to secure US patent rights on the laser that eventually made him a rich man.
Born in 1920 in Manhattan, Gould was the son of Kenneth Miller Gould, the long-time editor of Scholastic magazine, but it was his [...]
Booze prices are already starting to rise and the cycle of cheap drinks and a rising tide of
Booze prices are already starting to rise and the cycle of cheap drinks and a rising tide of violence is slowly, gradually, being broken. It will take time but it will be a lasting adjustment.Mediation is better than litigationThere is one footnote worth adding to the sorry saga of Equitable Life, the once proud savings [...]
And now aged 60 Dame Helen Mirren will soon portray Queens Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II on
And now aged 60 Dame Helen Mirren will soon portray Queens Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II on television. (Channel 4 will broadcast the first of two episodes of Elizabeth I next Thursday.)
Although it was her performance as DS Jane Tennison in the series of Prime Suspect television dramas that made her an international [...]
And whenever I feel like complaining I remember to be grateful as well that we don’t have rockets yet raining down on
And whenever I feel like complaining I remember to be grateful as well that we don’t have rockets (yet) raining down on our house. Anyway, I’m off to cook some tortillas and make some sombreros now. She says that the situation there is unbearable; many houses have been destroyed and families are going hungry. She [...]
Reports of visions of purgatory and paradise persisted for many centuries serving to attract
Reports of visions of purgatory and paradise persisted for many centuries, serving to attract pilgrims from the continent. The island was famed internationally, and was the sole Irish landmark on several maps of the Renaissance period. He received visions, they say, depicting “not only the torments of the wicked but also the joys of the [...]
With broadband internet demand soaring over the past year attention has turned to companies that own network infrastructure with Easynet and
With broadband internet demand soaring over the past year, attention has turned to companies that own network infrastructure, with Easynet and Be Internet recently taken over.Fibernet is a niche player that specialises in providing network services to corporate customers and internet service providers. Mobile players such as O2 and Virgin Mobile have been snapped up [...]
To spend your life in a waiting room is the worst mistake you could make you have to get out there and live
To spend your life in a waiting room is the worst mistake you could make, you have to get out there and live it. I’ve never felt like I was waiting for someone to come along, I’ve just got on with living. Don’t think of yourself as a victim and use words like “abandoned”. Being [...]
So you can blame it all on him
So you can blame it all on him.Nearly all McCabe’s close friends were outside the Dominican Order. He enjoyed immensely being the centre of a circle in a good pub. Whatever he was doing, he put an enormous amount of effort into the shaping of his words.This was his strength but also his weakness. It [...]
She was the oldest surviving child born in 1909 and only daughter of a West Virginia schoolteacher
She was the oldest surviving child, born in 1909, and only daughter, of a West Virginia schoolteacher and an Ohio businessman who had decided to seek their fortune in the capital of Mississippi. Like her mother, she was an early, eager reader – of fairy tales, myths, legends, parts of Pilgrim’s Progress and Gulliver’s Travels. [...]
From May the stipulations which bar him from poaching key Jupiter staff will end and it is widely rumoured that a number
From May the stipulations which bar him from poaching key Jupiter staff will end and it is widely rumoured that a number of fund managers are preparing to make the jump to their former boss, whose New Star is seen as being in the ascendant in City circles.. A single African antelope imported into the [...]