After a spell in business and a few years at the Treasury, he was enticed to King's College, Cambridge, which 61 years earlier another economist-aesthete, John Maynard Keynes, had joined as a lecturer, writing (with his mother's help) a letter of resignation from the civil service to his boss, a Sir Arthur Godley.

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She later joined "Battlestar's" writing team.

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It had two styli connected to pendulums joined to a wire and could reproduce writing on an electrically conductive surface.

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Unlike his father, Vidal showed no interest in sports and took to writing at age 14, joined the Navy at 17 and published his first novel, the World War II-themed "Williwaw, " while on night watch in port at 19.

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There, she joined forces with Canadian guitarist Adam Popowitz, writing songs with a global pop feel.

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Perkins, writing in Boating International magazine, said he joined the project to take the Super Falcon from prototype to a fully functional craft.

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Before writing became his career, the author was a sports reporter, construction worker and joined the Navy twice.

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About a week after starting the group, Jon Chattman, the one who wrote the piece for the HuffPo, joined the group and then wrote me to ask if he could help spread the word by writing about it for HuffPo.

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