Steve Jobs bio points out the good and the bad
9d ago By Jon Swartz and Scott Martin, USA TODAY
Writer Walter Isaacson deftly fleshes out the view of the secretive Apple co-founder.
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Isaacson's insights into genius
9d ago By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
Steve Jobs biography joins the author's works on Einstein, Edison and Kissinger.
Pre-orders soar for authorized Steve Jobs bio
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I've never done something like this before.'" Alda still gets asked about something he has done before: his 11 years as Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce on M.A.S.H. "There are people who come up to me who weren't even born when the show was on the
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of Aesop’s Fables, and later in the great tragedy authors of ancient Greek drama. It has been commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, however the modern English wording appears earlier in Algernon Sidney’s work. It is mistaken by many to be a Bible quote,
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savings was originally put in place to give people more daylight hours to work and do other activities. Conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 at the time when he was Minister to France, Franklin felt it was only natural that when it was dark outside, more
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