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CONTENTS:

• Picturing Business in America
• Business Leader
• The Franklin Institute Awards

PICTURING BUSINESS IN AMERICA

An interesting, but occasionally slow site, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery explores "hedcuts" -- those black and white portraits that illustrate the pages of the Wall Street Journal. The paper donated a group of hedcuts of the foremost current business leaders in the U.S. to the Gallery in 2001.

In addition to exploring more about these unique illustrations, the site also features biographies of the notables. Click on a person’s hedcut to load the bio. Bios can be slow to load, but that will give you an excuse to take a coffee break.

Interesting features focus on women, the changes in executives' looks over time and transformational leaders such as Bill Gates.

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/journal/index.htm

BUSINESS LEADER

Last reviewed by Internet Prospector in August of 1999 and well overdue for an update, Business Leader is a monthly publication focusing on business in the Research Triangle of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill). The region is known for cutting-edge research and development and is well worth researching. Articles on the area's leaders are archived and easy to access. They include:

• Hall of Fame: historical and contemporary figures honored in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2001;
• Business Leads: job changes in the area;
• Entrebizneur of the Year: articles about leading entrepreneurs archived from 1995-2001;
• Biz Leader of the Year and Business Leader of the Decade: articles archived from 1997; and
• Impact 100: an award given to those who have a positive and lasting impact on the community or organization. The 6th and 7th annual lists are online; the 6th annual list provides a nice compendium of affiliations and community activities, while the 7th annual list will tell you the person's greatest accomplishment.

The 8th Annual Impact 100, which was announced in January, and the latest Biz Leader of the Year will be available online in March.

http://www.businessleader.com

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE AWARDS

Each year, the Franklin Institute honors individuals whose work exemplifies excellence in the sciences. The Benjamin Franklin Medal, awarded since 1924, recognizes notables in such fields as Chemistry, Computer and Cognitive Science, Earth Science, Engineering, Life Science and Physics. The Bower Awards were established in 1988 by chemical manufacturer Henry Bower.

The 2003 winners range from Paul MacCready, an innovator in human-powered flight, to chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, to Herbert Kelleher of Southwest Airlines for his Business Leadership.

Click on 2003 Franklin Institute Award Laureates to read about recent winners or, for former honorees, click on Past Recipients of the Bower Awards or Previous Laureates for the years 1997 to 2002.

An interesting bonus for science and history buffs -- scroll down to the winner biographies to find others who are considered legacies for that award. For example, when you read about Paul MacCready for Achievement in Science, you will discover that Orville Wright was a medal winner in 1914, 1925 and 1933. And the legacy winners of the Life Science Award, just won by Jane Goodall, include Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk and Stephen Hawking.

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/exhibits/bower/index.html

Pam Patton

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