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One of the funniest blogs on the Web is written by a friend of mine named Smartass Cripple.
About 12 or 15 people show up, and this is where it gets named the Baltimore Ceasefire, because you know what that means when you hear the word "cease-fire."
And it's by a guy named Pastor Rick Warren, and it's called "The Porpoise Driven Life." (Laughter) And Rick is as a pagan god, which I thought was kind of appropriate, in a certain way.
And this was seen by a director in L.A. named James Frost who said, "Wait a minute.
And I met a music video director named Chris Milk.
I found a brilliant aeronautical engineer who designs sails for America's Cup racing yachts named Peter Heppel.
She mobilized resources for building the local health clinic and the maternity wing is named in memory of her.
She created the Swiss people named the Uvulites, and they have this distinctive yodeling song that they use the uvula for.
This morning, some of the speakers named the date when they found out about their condition.
There's a chef in Spain named Ferran Adria.
So he finally found an art dealer, a Dutch art dealer named Han van Meegeren, who sold him a wonderful Vermeer for the cost of what would now be 10 million dollars.
This red cup comes from Rwanda from a child named Fabian.
On June 23, 2000, a ship named the Treasure sank off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of fuel, which polluted the habitats of nearly half the entire world population of African penguins.
And exactly six years and three days earlier, on June 20, 1994, a ship named the Apollo Sea sank near Dassen Island, oiling 10,000 penguins, half of which died.
The local seabird rescue center, named SANCCOB, immediately launched a massive rescue operation, and this soon would become the largest animal rescue ever undertaken.
Turns out the gentleman in this picture is a guy named Joe Beery, who was lucky enough to be the CIO of a company called Life Technologies.
This graduate student named Brad Myers, in 1985, decided he would study this.
When I was 10 years old, there was a girl in my class at school named Vicky.
It's a story that begins, but does not end, with a mathematician named Tim Gowers.
But then, a mathematician from the University of British Columbia named Jozsef Solymosi posted a short comment.
And this seemed to break the ice, because a few minutes later, a high school teacher named Jason Dyer posted a suggestion.
And a few minutes after that, another mathematician named Terence Tao, also a Fields medalist, posted an idea.
A grad student at Caltech named John Stockton had a very good idea for what he called the "Quantum Wiki," or "Qwiki" for short.
In fact, one of his classmates is a young man named Lenin who would go on to break small, expensive, exquisite objects.
So in the 1930s, he hired a whole bunch of them, including a man named Hermann Long who, in 1938, gave a complete set of the plans for the Norden bombsight to the Nazis.
And so, please consider this a work in progress, but I'd like to tell you today a story about a very rare cancer called midline carcinoma, about the undruggable protein target that causes this cancer, called BRD4, and about a molecule developed at my lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, called JQ1, which we affectionately named for Jun Qi, the chemist that made this molecule.
I'd been reading this great American philosopher named Grace Lee Boggs who happened to live in Detroit, and she said something I can't forget.
During the year I worked on my house before moving in, I lived in a microcommunity inside Poletown, founded by a wild and virtuous farmer named Paul Weertz.
A then unknown philosopher named Adam Smith wrote a book in 1759 called "The Theory of Moral Sentiments."
You named each one with a number, and the last number you said was the number of penguins.
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