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Rascals

Chris Brady

  Thousands of pilots were shot down over northwestern Europe,and it wasn't long before clandestine operations sprang into place to smugglethem back to England to fight again. Armstrong called "the most efficient andcruelly repressive secret police in Europe."

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business Review

Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., resulting in an estimated 200,000 deaths from complications or other post-operative issues. Older procedures required cutting large openings to operate on a patient (e.g., Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

Armstrong’s Killer App. Edwin Howard Armstrong was a science prodigy. In 1934, the same year that the FRC became the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Armstrong was perfecting a new radio technology that offered superior reception: “high fidelity.” Steve Jobs was the Baby Boomer version of Armstrong.