EARLY LIFEFranklin Chang Diaz was born on April 5, 1950, in San José, Costa Rica. He was one of six children in the family. Franklin knew from a young age that he wanted to become an astronaut. Franklin attended primary school in Costa Rica, but after his graduation, his parents sent...
His private life at this time was extremely complicated. Deborah Read had married, but her husband had deserted her and disappeared. One matchmaking venture failed because Franklin wanted a dowry of £100 to pay off his business debt. A strong sexual drive, “that hard-to-be-govern’d Pass...
Wealth in the modern world does not come merely from individual effort; it results from a combination of individual effort and of the manifold uses to which the community puts that effort. There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations muc...
it takes on a life of its own. A former BBC and Guardian journalist named Jonathan Kent published a book on polyamory. Someone started a rumor that I profit from the book somehow, or (depending on which version you believe) that I secretly wrote it under his name, or something. ...
have a hard time predicting how we will react to something new. I’ve known women who believed they wouldn’t like dirty talk, but who found it arousing when they were turned on. I’ve known women who liked reading stories involving dirty talk but didn’t like it in real life. That’...