The inventor of this didn’t kick the bucket— rather he left it outside in cold weather with something tasty inside of it.
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Dueling vendors at the 1904 World’s Fair found a way to serve customers this cold treat.
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Did I Just Invent That? Many of the greatest inventions occurred completely by accident, and throughout this issue you’ll find details on a few of them. Here are clues to a handful — the trick being, of course, to figure out what the invention is before you turn the page.
Goopey wallpaper resulted in this pliable pastime.
A naval engineer turned a tension spring into this plaything.
Departments Dialogue
2 Engaging Our Students 3 To the Wire 4 Letters 5 6 7 7 8
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College
Alumni Dig Deep Ruin and Recovery Honoring Sam Ancient City Search LSA News
Faculty
42 His Heart on His Sleeve 45 Faculty Books 46 Election Forensics 48 Tracking Toxins Students
49 Student CEOs 51 Olympic Correspondent 52 Portrait of a Drum Major
Alumni
54 The Long Haul 55 A Humanitarian Hero 57 Life After a Layoff 59 The Practical Actuarial 62 The Prairie Queen 63 Thoroughly Modern Mildred 65 Mighty Madam President 67 Nurturing Democracy
Campus
68 Illuminating the Energy Crisis 70 A Thief’s Caprice 71 Campus News LSA Perspectives
72 Crystal McCrary Anthony
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Media The Face of Medicine Man the Moon
The Affairs of Small Tribes
Neurosurgeon and journalist Sanjay Gupta in the exam room of his own life: how he sutured his two careers together and started practicing the health lessons he was preaching.
Aaron David Miller recently interviewed three presidents, four national security advisers, and nine secretaries of state to plot the complex, tangled roadmap to peace in the Middle East. No easy answers here.
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Learned scientists didn’t want to hear him. The war effort needed him. His family, and family business, called to him. Yet for 40 years, Ralph Baldwin never stopped fighting the battle that would revolutionize lunar science forever.
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Out of Africa
Mugabe’s reign of terror in Zimbabwe was never just a newspaper headline for Clapperton Mavhunga, but rather everyday life. Mavhunga came to Michigan to study, without fear of torture or death, what went wrong in his homeland — and why.
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