ENDNOTES
Chapter 1
1 Brooke Morton, “The Girl Who Fell in Love With Sharks,” Red Bull, 14 July 2015, https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/the-girl-who-fell-in-love-with-sharks.
2 BEC Crew, “WATCH: Diver Coaxes Shark into a Tonic State and It’s Beautiful,” February 11, 2015, https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-diver-coaxes-shark-into-a-tonic-state-and-it-s-beautiful.
3 David Browne, “No-Cage Shark Diving,” Men’s Journal, October 2014, https://www.mensjournal.com/features/no-cage-shark-diving-20141001/.
4 Tom Harris, “How Sharks Work,” How Stuff Works, https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/sharks/shark4.htm.
5 John Adolfson, Perception and Performance Under Water (New York: Wiley, 1974).
6 Susan Casey, The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks. (New York: Holt, 2005).
7 Ibid.
8 David J. Linden, The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good (New York: Viking, 2011).
9 Deborah Perry Piscione, The Risk Factor: Why Every Organization Needs Big Bets, Bold Characters, and the Occasional Spectacular Failure (St. Martin’s Press, December 23, 2014).
10 Ibid.
11 Bruce Goldman. “What is the relationship between the brain and risky behavior?” Stanford Chemical Engineering. (March 23, 2016) https://cheme.stanford.edu/news/what-relationship-between-brain-and-risky-behavior
12 Florence Williams. “This Is Your Brain on Adventure.” Outside. (March 19, 2009). https://www.outsideonline.com/1896581/your-brain-adventure
13 SINTEF. “Risk-takers are smarter, according to a new study.” ScienceDaily. November 30, 2015. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151130113545.htm
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Goldman. “What is the relationship between the brain and risky behavior?”
21 Williams. “This Is Your Brain on Adventure”
22 Ibid.
23 Ralf C. Buckley, “Adventure Thrills Are Addictive,” Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015): 1915. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01915.
24 Barrett and Martin, “Personality Traits.”
Chapter 2
1 Emma Barrett and Paul Martin, Extreme: Why Some People Thrive at the Limits (Oxford University Press, 2014) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/12/04/personality-traits-extreme-adventurers/#.WwASqlN1zOZ
2 Ibid.
3 Alex Honnold and David Roberts, Alone on the Wall (W.W. Norton, 2018)
4 Alan C. Greenberg and Mark Singer, The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010) 2.
5 Alan C. Greenberg and Mark Singer, The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010) 30.
6 “History,” I.W. Harper, https://www.iwharper.com/iw-harper-whiskey-history.
7 Kenneth N. Gilpin. “I.W. Burnham II, a Baron of Wall Street, Is Dead at 93,” New York Times, June 29, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/business/iw-burnham-ii-a-baron-of-wall-street-is-dead-at-93.html.
8 Robert Sobel, Dangerous Dreamers: Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 2000), 74.
9 Nicole Zappone, “Robert Linton, Westchester Resident, Wall Street Banker, 90.” Pound Ridge Daily Voice, April 29, 2016, http://poundridge.dailyvoice.com/obituaries/robert-linton-westchester-resident-wall-street-banker-90/656307/.
10 Ben Protess, “Robert Linton, Steadfast ’80s Wall Street Banker, Dies at 90,” New York Times, April 28, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/business/dealbook/robert-linton-steadfast-80s-wall-street-banker-dies-at-90.html.
11 Schroeder, Alice. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. New York: Bantam, 2008.
12 Schroeder, Snowball, 517.
13 Gary Silverman, “Wall Street Legend ‘Ace’ Greenberg Dies,” July 25, 2014, Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/a09ff25e-141f-11e4-9acb-00144feabdc0.
14 Anthony DePalma, “When ‘Rosie’ Asks, New York’s Elite Can’t Say No.” New York Times. November 20, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/giving/when-rosie-asks-new-york-s-elite-can-t-say-no.html.
15 Silverman, “Wall Street.”
16 Alan C. Greenberg and Mark Singer, The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 79.
17 Value of $25,000 in 1964. Savings.org. https://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=25,000&year=1964.
18 “Rorer Group,” International Directory of Company Histories, Encyclopedia.com, http://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/rorer-group.
19 Patrick Dillon and Carl Cannon, Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees (New York: Crown/Archetype, 2010), 77-79.
20 Rhonda L. Rundle. “A Career in Courts Leads to Trouble for Seymour Lazar,” Wall Street Journal. January 19, 2006, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113763749073550494.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Dillon and Cannon, Circle, 77-79.
24 Jill Leovy, “Seymour Lazar dies at 88; entertainment attorney caught up in kickback scandal,” April 5, 2016, Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-seymour-lazar-20160406-story.html.
25 Rundle, “Career.”
26 Leovy, “Lazar.”
27 Ibid.
28 Rundle, “Career.”
29 William Grimes. “Seymour Lazar, 88, Dies; Flamboyant Entertainment Lawyer, and More,” April 6, 2016, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/business/seymour-lazar-flamboyant-entertainment-lawyer-dies-at-88.html.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Greenberg and Singer, Rise, 60.
35 “Leveraged Buyout (LBO),” Investopedia, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/leveragedbuyout.asp.
36 Greenberg and Singer, Rise, 26-27.
37 Mary Buffett and David Clark, Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage: Proven Strategies for Arbitrage and Other Special Investment Situations (New York: Scribner, 2008). Kindle Locations 121-135.
38 Greenberg and Singer, Rise, 26-27.
39 Ibid.
40 Adam Hayes, “Options Basics: What Are Options?” Investopedia, https://www.investopedia.com/university/options/option.asp#ixzz54XywrOmw.
41 “The NASDAQ Options Trading Guide,” NASDAQ, http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/options-guide/.
42 Ibid.
43 “‘First Apple computer’ sells for $815,000,” BBC News, August 26, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37199000.
44 Amy-Mae Turner, “Personal Computers: A History of the Hardware That Changed the World,” Mashable, August 12, 2011, http://mashable.com/2011/08/12/ibm-pc-history/#zfLlswPM98qG.
45 “William F. Sharpe—Facts,” Nobelprize.org, Nobel Media AB 2014, January 31, 2018, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1990/sharpe-facts.html.
46 Lynn Schroeder and Sheila Ostrander, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, reprint (New York: Prentice Hall Trade, 1984).
47 Noah Shachtman, “RAND: Russians Top U.S. in Paranormal Research,” WIRED, December 13, 2007. https://www.wired.com/2007/12/rand-russians-t/.
48 Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. “Nixon and Dixon,” Newsweek, May 8, 2005, accessed at https://web.archive.org/web/20050508174702/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7276868/site/newsweek.
49 R. Jeffrey Smith and Curt Suplee, “Psychic Arms Race Had Several Funding Channels,” Washington Post, November 30, 1995, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/11/30/psychic-arms-race-had-several-funding-channels/1b4fd4b2-307e-48ac-ba7f-222f7aff0807/?utm_term=.de60930a339c.
50 Ibid.
51 The Men Who Stare at Goats, directed by Grant Heslov, 2009, Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment.
52 Michael Peck, “The CIA’s Secret Plan to Crush Russia During the Cold War: Super Psychic Powers,” The National Interest, March 20, 2017, http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-cias-secret-plan-beat-russia-during-the-cold-war-super-19818.
53 Vicky Ward, “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” Vanity Fair, March 2003, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303.
54 David K. Randall, “The Making of Malibu,” March 10, 2016, Lapham’s Quarterly, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/making-malibu
55 David K. Randall, The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise (New York: W. W. Norton & Company), Kindle.
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid.
58 “Malibu History: Early Land Sales and the Malibu Colony,” Malibu Complete, http://www.malibucomplete.com/mc_history_dev_colony.php
59 Randall, “Malibu.”
60 Ibid.
61 Michele Willens, “The Rise of the Malibu Movie Colony,” The Daily Beast, April 29, 2014. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-of-the-malibu-movie-colony.
62 Randall, “Malibu.”
63 Malibu Complete, “History.”
64 Jon Nordheimer, “Malibu: A Mile-Long Strip of Glamour and Rising Prices,” New York Times. June 24, 1975, https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/24/archives/malibu-a-milelong-strip-of-glamour-and-rising-prices-malibu-a.html.
65 Malibu Complete, “History.”
66 Nordheimer, “Mile-Long.”
67 Ibid.
68 Ibid.
69 Willens, “Rise.”
70 Laura House, “Malibu: The ‘It’ Beachfront Neighborhood for Los Angelenos,” Mansion Global, January 27, 2018, https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/86842-malibu-the-it-beachfront-neighborhood-for-los-angelenos.
Chapter 3
1 Deborah Perry Piscione, The Risk Factor: Why Every Organization Needs Big Bets, Bold Characters, and the Occasional Spectacular Failure (St. Martin’s Press, December 23, 2014) 34.
2 “America’s Most Admired Companies 2007,” Fortune, http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2007/industries/industry_52.html.
3 Roddy Boyd, “The last days of Bear Stearns,” Fortune, March 31, 2008, https://money.cnn.com/2008/03/28/magazines/fortune/boyd_bear.fortune/.
4 Paula Kepos et al, International Directory of Company Histories, vol. 7 (Chicago: St. James Press, 1993), 537-539.
5 Ibid.
6 “Paolo Borghese (1904-1985),” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Borghese_(1904-1985).
7 “Marcella Borghese; Princess, 90, Began a Line of Cosmetics,” New York Times, February 8, 2002, https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/business/marcella-borghese-princess-90-began-a-line-of-cosmetics.html.
8 “Prince Paolo Borghese,” New York Times, April 27, 1985, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/27/world/prince-paolo-borghese.html.
9 David Minor, “Justin Ford Kimball,” Texas State Historical Association, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fki09.
10 “Blue Facts,” BlueCross BlueShield Association, https://www.bcbs.com/sites/default/files/file-attachments/page/BCBS.Facts__0.pdf.
11 Thomas C. Hayes. “Wickes Reaches an Agreement With Creditors,” New York Times, February 24, 1984, https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/24/business/wickes-reaches-an-agreement-with-creditors.html
12 Ibid.
13 “Wickes Recession’s Biggest Casualty,” Washington Post, April 26, 1982, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1982/04/26/wickes-recessions-biggest-casualty/23e53e99-0354-4df6-9826-e24657ab6495/?utm_term=.0565b9219eab.
14 Jane W. Applegate and Nancy Yoshihara. “Wickes OKs $538-Million Buyout by Two Investment Firms; Sigoloff Will Leave.” October 27, 1988, Los Angeles Times, http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-27/business/fi-169_1_investment-banking-firms.
15 Marc Levinson. “Review Kirk Kerkorian, ‘The Gambler.’” Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/article_email/review-kirk-kerkorian-the-gambler-1516666136-lMyQjAxMTI4MjI0NDIyODQxWj/.
16 William C. Rempel, The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (New York: HarperCollins), 269. Kindle.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Levinson, “Review.”
20 Ibid.
21 Jenny Craig, Inc. Co-Founder Sid Craig Dies at 76,” News and Media, Jenny Craig Inc., July 22, 2008, http://www.jennycraig.com/site/corporate/news/detail/601134.
22 Jenny Craig, The Jenny Craig Story: How One Woman Changes Millions of Lives (New York: Wiley, 2004) 128-129.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 “Co-Founder.”
26 Sallie Hofmeister, “The Hard Fall of a Super Salesman,” New York Times, September 19, 1994, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/19/business/the-hard-fall-of-a-super-salesman.html.
27 David McClintick, “Final Exposure,” Vanity Fair, November 1995, https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1995/11/begelman199511.
28 Hofmeister, “Fall.”
29 Ibid.
30 McClintick, “Final.”
31 “Sports Executive Enters Guilty Plea,” New York Times, December 15, 1994, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/15/business/sports-executive-enters-guilty-plea.html.
32 Ibid.
33 McClintick, “Final.”
34 Rob Lever, “Verizon buys faded Internet pioneer AOL for $4.4 bn,” Business Insider, May 12, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-verizon-buys-faded-internet-pioneer-aol-for-4.4-bn-2015-5?IR=T.
35 Dean Budnick and Josh Baron, Ticket Masters: The rise of the concert industry and how the public got scalped (Toronto: ECW Press, 2011) 227–229, 232.
36 Anthony Ramirez, “Jay Pritzker, Billionaire Who Founded the Hyatt Hotel Chain, Is Dead at 76,” New York Times, January 24, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/us/jay-pritzker-billionaire-who-founded-the-hyatt-hotel-chain-is-dead-at-76.html.
37 “Jay Pritzker,” The Economist, January 28, 1999, https://www.economist.com/node/184547.
38 Ramirez, “Pritzker.”
39 “Pritzker,” The Economist.
40 Ramirez, “Pritzker.”
41 Ibid.
42 “Pritzker,” The Economist.
43 Ramirez, “Pritzker.”
44 Laila Kollmorgen and Steve Oh, “Seeing Beyond the Complexity: An Introduction to Collateralized Loan Obligations,” PineBridge, August 8, 2017, https://www.pinebridge.com/insights/investing/2017/08/clo-beyond-the-complexity.
45 Keith Button, “BlackRock Snags TCP, as Private Credit’s High Yield Appeals,” Mergers & Acquisitions, April 19, 2018, https://www.themiddlemarket.com/news/blackrock-acquires-tcp-as-private-credits-high-yield-appeals.
46 “Industry Specialization,” Tennenbaum Capital, https://tennenbaumcapital.com/deal-sourcing/.
47 Button, “BlackRock.”
48 Ibid.
Chapter 4
1 Brenda Gazzar, “Revisiting the Watts Riots 50 Years Later: ‘The Explosion Was Almost Predictable,’” August 8, 2015, Los Angeles Daily News, https://www.dailynews.com/2015/08/08/revisiting-the-watts-riots-50-years-later-the-explosion-was-almost-predictable/.
2 “Juan Bautista de Anza,” Desert USA, https://www.desertusa.com/desert-people/juan-bautista-de-anza.html.
3 “About Arizona City,” Arizona City Chamber of Commerce, http://www.arizonacitychamber.com/index.php/home/about-arizona-city.
4 “Arizona City, AZ, Real Estate in Arizona,” My Own Arizona, http://www.myownarizona.com/08ZZC_arizona_city_az_real_estate.html.
5 Teena Maddox, “Why Bill Gates Wants to Build an $80M Smart City Utopia in Arizona,” TechRepublic, November 14, 2017, https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-bill-gates-wants-to-build-an-80m-smart-city-utopia-in-arizona/.
6 Ken Belson, “J. B. Fuqua, 87, Entrepreneur Who Gave Millions to Duke U,” New York Times, April 9, 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/business/j-b-fuqua-87-entrepreneur-who-gave-millions-to-duke-u.html.
7 “Fuqua Industries, Inc.,” CompanyHistories.com, http://www.company-histories.com/FUQUA-INDUSTRIES-INC-Company-History.html.
8 Don O’Briant. “J. B. Fuqua (1918-2006),” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 20, 2004, New Georgia Encyclopedia, Dec 4, 2013. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/j-b-fuqua-1918-2006.
9 Belson, J. B.
10 O’Briant, “Fuqua.”
11 Ibid.
12 “Fuqua Industries, Inc.,” CompanyHistories.com.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 O’Briant, “Fuqua.”
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
Chapter 5
1 Kajtna, T., Tušak, M., Bari´c, R., & Burnik, S. (2004). Personality in high-risk sports athletes. Kinesiology, 36(1), 24-34. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-16468-002.
2 David Ferry. “Why Do We Love Extreme Sports?” Outside (May 9, 2017) https://www.outsideonline.com/2181706/why-do-we-love-extreme-sports
3 Ibid.
4 Louis Menand, “Notable Quotables,” The New Yorker, February 19, 2007, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/19/notable-quotables.
5 Associated Press, “Robert Graham, a Sculptor of Monuments in Bronze, Dies at 70.” New York Times, December 28, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/arts/design/29Graham.html.
Chapter 6
1 Joe Myers. “Quotes from Famous Philanthropists.” World Economic Forum. (3 December 2015) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/11-quotes-from-famous-philanthropists/
2 Steve Hawk. “Advice to Future Philanthropists: Follow Your Heart but Let Your Brain Drive,” Stanford Business. (March 7, 2017) https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/advice-future-philanthropists-follow-your-heart-let-your-brain-drive
3 “Mapping LA: South LA: Watts,” Los Angeles Times, http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/watts/.
4 Ibid.
5 “This Day in History: April 29, 1992: Riots erupt in Los Angeles,” History.com, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/riots-erupt-in-los-angeles.
6 “About Mayor Tom Bradley,” Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race, https://www.mayortombradley.com/what-we-do.
7 Ibid.
8 “Roxanne Spillett,” I Have A Dream Foundation, April 18, 2017, https://www.ihaveadreamfoundation.org/team/roxanne-spillett/.
9 “Colin Powell Fast Facts,” CNN, March 25, 2018, https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/colin-powell-fast-facts/index.html.
10 Melanie Grayce West, “The Four Tenets of a Philanthropist,” Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2012, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204792404577227550619112584.
11 Ibid.
12 “Roxanne,” I Have A Dream Foundation.
13 Suzanne Perry, “Senators Call On Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Justify Pay and Spending,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 12, 2010, https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Senators-Call-On-Boys-Girls/161167.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 “Lou Dantzler & Challengers,” Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles, https://bgcmla.multiscreensite.com/watts-willowbrook.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Jocelyn Y. Stewart, “Lou Dantzler, 69; Founder of L.A.’s Challengers Boys & Girls Club.” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2006, http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/09/local/me-dantzler9.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 “Lou Dantzler, Founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, Dies at 69,” BusinessWire, July 10, 2006, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20060710006029/en/Lou-Dantzler-Founder-Challengers-Boys-Girls-Club.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Jeffrey Mervis, “An Interview with Wayne Clough: Wayne Clough Wants Smithsonian Science to Escape Its Shadow,” Science, August 5, 2011, 333: 6043, 694-695, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/694/tab-figures-data.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 “Wayne Clough: Biography,” NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering, National Academy of Engineering. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/14500/17800/18887/17407.aspx.
31 “Former Secretary G. Wayne Clough,” Smithsonian, https://www.si.edu/about/secretary-wayne-clough.
32 Mervis, “Interview.”
33 Kristin Hugo, “Cretalamna Bryanti: New Dinosaur-Era Shark, Ancestor to Fierce and Ancient Megalodon, Discovered In Alabama,” Newsweek, January 10, 2018, http://www.newsweek.com/cretalamna-bryanti-enormous-dinosaur-era-shark-discovered-alabama-ancestor-776059.
34 Catalina Pimiento et al., “Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama,” PLoS ONE 5(5): e10552. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010552.
35 Asier Larramendi, “Shoulder Height, Body Mass, and Shape of Proboscideans,” Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 61 (3): 546, 2016, https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app61/app001362014.pdf.
36 Charles Q. Choi, “Ancient Shark’s Bite More Powerful Than T. Rex’s,” LiveScience, August 4, 2008, https://www.livescience.com/2735-ancient-shark-bite-powerful-rex.html.
37 Tia Ghose, “Megalodon Mystery: What Killed Earth’s Largest Shark?” LiveScience, November 4, 2013, https://www.livescience.com/40920-megalodon-got-too-big-extinction.html.
38 G. Wayne Clough, “The Smithsonian Heads to Hawaii,” Smithsonian.com, December 2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-smithsonian-heads-to-hawaii-163052077/.
39 Ibid.
40 “Press Kit: National Zoo Facts and Figures,” Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Web Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20140820231633/ http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/PressMaterials/PressKit/FactsFigs.cfm.
41 Ibid.
42 “About SCBI,” Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation/about-scbi.
43 “Zygmund Is Introduced to Female Przewalski’s Horse Herd,” Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, November 22, 2017, https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/zygmund-introduced-female-przewalskis-horse-herd.
44 “About Us,” Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, https://stri.si.edu/about-us.
45 “Former,” Smithsonian.
46 Ibid.
47 “Biography,” NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering.
48 “Dr. G. Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Biography,” National Academy of Engineering, https://www.nae.edu/88198.aspx.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 “UCLA medical school ranked among nation’s best in research, primary care,” UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, March 14, 2017, http://medschool.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=1158&action=detail&ref=956.
54 Andrew R. Marks, “A Mission Statement for the JCI at the Dawn of the 21st Century,” Journal of Clinical Investigation, March 1, 2002, 109(5): 563–564, doi: 10.1172/JCI15199.
55 “International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium Publishes Sequence and Analysis of the Human Genome.” NIH: National Human Genome Research Institute, February 12, 2001, https://www.genome.gov/10002192/2001-release-first-analysis-of-human-genome/.
56 Lauren Cox, “The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade—From Genome to Hormones, Doctors Pick the Top Medical Advances of the Decade,” MedPage Today, December 17, 2009, https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/17594.
57 “About Peter C. Whybrow,” PeterWhybrow.com, http://www.peterwhybrow.com/about.html.
58 Ibid.
59 “Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity: Research,” Semel Institute UCLA, https://www.semel.ucla.edu/creativity/research.
60 Ibid.
61 “Big C Project to Be Featured at Society for Neuroscience of Creativity,” Semel Institute UCLA, February 22, 2017, https://www.semel.ucla.edu/creativity/news/big-c-project-be-featured-society-neuroscience-creativity.
62 “A Campus Built on Philanthropy: McArthur Hall,” Harvard Business School, https://www.hbs.edu/about/campus-and-culture/campus-built-on-philanthropy/Pages/mcarthur-hall.aspx.
63 “The History and Heritage Program of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International,” Georgia Institute of Technology: An ASME Historical Mechanical Engineering Heritage Site, 1-2. https://web.archive.org/web/20070615060054/ http://files.asme.org/ASMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/1293.pdf.
64 “The Hopkins Administration, 1888-1895,” Library Georgia Tech, http://www.library.gatech.edu/gtbuildings/hopkins.htm.
65 Georgia Institute.
66 “Hopkins Administration,” Library Georgia Tech.
67 Georgia Institute.
68 “U.S. News Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs.” U.S. News and World Report, 2018. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate.
69 Ibid.
70 “Women in Engineering,” GeorgiaTech.edu, http://www.gatech.edu/about/rankings.
71 “Same Vision, New Direction.” Philanthropy Quarterly, Summer 2017.
72 “American Ballet Theatre: Touring the Globe for 75 Years: 1940,” Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/american-ballet-theatre/1940.html.
73 Ibid.
74 “1961: Russian dancer in freedom dash,” BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/17/newsid_4461000/4461353.stm.
75 “About Lincoln Center,” Lincoln Center, http://www.lincolncenter.org/visit/.
76 Jennifer Dunning, “Joffrey and Choreographer Agree to Negotiate,” New York Times, May 4, 1990, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/04/arts/joffrey-and-choreographer-agree-to-negotiate.html.
77 Ibid.
78 “Joffrey History,” Joffrey Ballet School, https://www.joffreyballetschool.com/about-us/#history.
79 “Los Angeles World Affairs Council,” Politicon, https://politicon.com/speaker/los-angeles-world-affairs-council/.
80 Jeff Daniels, “California’s $77 billion ‘bullet train to nowhere’ faces a murky future as political opposition ramps up,” CNBC, March 12, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/12/californias-77-billion-high-speed-rail-project-is-in-trouble.html.
81 “President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary LaHood Call for U.S. High-Speed Passenger Trains,” Press Release, US Department of Transportation, April 16, 2009, DOT 51-09, http://www.fra.dot.gov/Downloads/RRdev/hsrpressrelease.pdf.
82 Michael Smart, “Why can’t Americans have high-speed trains?” CNN, May 4, 2015, https://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/03/opinions/smart-high-speed-trains-america/index.html.
83 “President Obama,” US Department of Transportation.
84 Ibid.
85 Daniels, “California’s.”
86 Ibid.
87 Smart, “Why.”
88 “Why Doesn’t the United States Have High-Speed Bullet Trains Like Europe and Asia?” Forbes, March 11, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/11/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-high-speed-bullet-trains-like-europe-and-asia/.
89 Smart, “Why.”
90 Mara Hvistendahl, “China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?” Scientific American, March 25, 2008, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-three-gorges-dam-disaster/.
91 “California High Speed Rail Program Draft Revised 2012 Business Plan,” California High Speed Rail Authority, April 2, 2012, 3-10, http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/Document_Repository/Business_Plans/Draft percent20Revised percent202012 percent20Business percent20Plan(2).pdf.
92 “Japan maglev train sets world record,” CNN, October 19, 2016, https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/21/asia/japan-maglev-train-world-record/.
93 “The Merits of Revisiting Michael Young.” The Economist, February 10, 2018.
94 Elizabeth Chou, “Former LA Mayor Richard Riordan (86) marries Harvard-Westlake admissions director.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 20, 2017
95 John Dunn, “Saving LA: Michael Tennenbaum’s Plan to Do It,” Georgia Tech, Winter 1995, 12-15.
Chapter 7
1 Catherine Wines, “Why Immigrants Are Natural Entrepreneurs,” Forbes (September 7, 2018), https://www.forbes.com/sites/catherinewines/2018/09/07/why-immigrants-are-natural-entrepreneurs/#681b72651d94
2 Leslie Allen, “The Immigrant Journey,” in Liberty: The Statue and the American Dream (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1985), excerpted at http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/journey.htm.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Bennet Muraskin, “Jewish Surnames Explained.” Slate, January 8, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/01/08/ashkenazi_names_the_etymology_of_the_most_common_jewish_surnames.html.
6 “Tennenbam Family History,” Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=tennenbaum.
7 “The Journey to Ellis Island, New York,” Irish Genealogy Toolkit, https://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/journey-to-Ellis-Island.html.
8 “Ellis Island,” History.com, https://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island#.
9 Allen, “Immigrant.”
10 Richard Cavendish, “‘Bloody Sunday’ in St. Petersburg,” History Today 55, no. 1 (2005), https://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/%E2%80%98bloody-sunday%E2%80%99-st-petersburg.
11 Polk County Schools, “Florida’s Post World War I Boom and Bust,” https://www.polk-fl.net/staff/teachers/tah/documents/floridaflavor/lessons/e-9.pdf.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 “Great Depression,” History.com, 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression.
15 Linda K. Williams, later revised by Paul S. George, “South Florida: A Brief History,” Historical Museum of Southern Florida, https://web.archive.org/web/20100429002717/http://www.hmsf.org/history/south-florida-brief-history.htm.
16 “Bittersweet: The Rise and Fall of the Citrus Industry in Florida,” Florida Memory: State Library and Archives of Florida, https://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_exhibits/citrus/citrus2.php.
17 Polk County Schools, “Florida’s.”
18 Donald Rapp, Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets (New York: Springer), 164.
19 Polk County Schools, “Florida’s.”
20 Gregg Turner, Florida Railroads in the 1920s (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing).
21 Polk County Schools, “Florida’s.”
22 History.com, “Great Depression.”
23 Ellen Parson, “The 1950s (1950-1959),” Electrical Construction & Maintenance, June 1, 2001, http://www.ecmweb.com/content/1950s-1950-1959.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Sharon Terlep, “Gillette, Bleeding Market Share, Cuts Prices of Razors,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/gillette-bleeding-market-share-cuts-prices-of-razors-1491303601.
Chapter 8
1 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Flow (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) 3.
2 Piscione, Risk Factor.
3 “Here’s Fortune’s Survey on How Americans Viewed Jewish Refugees in 1938,” Fortune, November 18, 2015, http://fortune.com/2015/11/18/fortune-survey-jewish-refugees.
4 Ian Fisher, “$1 Million Gift for New Charity Case: the Viagra-Needy.” New York Times, June 10, 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/10/nyregion/1-million-gift-for-new-charity-case-the-viagra-needy.html.
5 Fisher, “Gift.”
6 Walter Low, “DeMille at 75, Still Creating,” Kentucky New Era, October 22, 1956, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19561022&id=0KY0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-WYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1290,1458005.
7 Ghaith Madadha, “The Jensen Interceptor’s second coming oozes 1960s cool and sophistication,” The National, August 15, 2013, https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/motoring/the-jensen-interceptor-s-second-coming-oozes-1960s-cool-and-sophistication-1.294840.
8 Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (New York: Harper, 2004), 20th Anniversary edition.
Epilogue
1 “Key Statistics for Prostate Cancer,” American Cancer Society, Cancer.org, https://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostate-cancer/about/key-statistics.html.
2 “James C. Puffer,” LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-c-puffer-7518b610/ and American Board of Family Medicine https://www.theabfm.org/about/execs.aspx.
3 Piscione, Risk Factor.
4 “People Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Doing It,” Quote Investigator, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/01/26/doing.