Nov 22nd, 2008 · Mark Newman, co-author of The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live, says there are more things to understand about the world than how many acres there are in a country. The new book redraws the world in ways other than by land mass.
Nov 7th, 2008 · Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, has a new spin on an old map. He created a program to make cartograms — maps in which states are drawn with their size proportional to their population, rather than their acreage.
Oct 1st, 2008 · There's an old French expression: "An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man." No one ever thought that of Paul Newman. In a way, men and women alike saw him more as a hero than an actor. Certainly, it's hard to think of anyone else in show business who had as many sports connections as Newman did.
Sep 29th, 2008 · Oscar Award-winning actor Paul Newman died on Sept. 26 of complications from lung cancer. Over the course of his decades-long career, Newman starred in dozens of hit films including Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and Cool Hand Luke.
Sep 29th, 2008 · Along with his acting career, Paul Newman made a name for himself as a philanthropist and humanitarian, traits that made him an appropriate choice to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, in a performance at Carnegie Hall with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Sep 29th, 2008 · Actor, businessman and philanthropist Paul Newman died Friday at the age of 83. Steve Inskeep has a remembrance.
Sep 29th, 2008 · People remembering Paul Newman include a reporter who once worked for a Connecticut newspaper. The managing editor got a call from a man claiming to be Paul Newman. She hung up at first, thinking it was a prank. But Newman really had a story idea. To cover that story, a reporter went to Newman's home. And he happened by a bathroom. Every sheet of toilet paper had a famous actor's face and the words, "Greetings from Robert Redford."
Sep 27th, 2008 · Screen legend, philanthropist and race car enthusiast Paul Newman has died. A spokeswoman for the 83-year-old actor said Saturday that Newman died Friday after a battle with cancer. He leaves behind five decades of film work and a legacy of charitable giving.