Mr Oliver's great friend and fellow driver Peter Smithson drove Sir Geoffrey Howe for 24 years.
If there were, says Ms Smithson, more effort and urgency might go into biosafety and biosecurity.
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Like Mr. Capobianco, Mr. Smithson managed to get out of most of his stocks before the big bust.
"We still talk about stocks now and then, but not like we used to, " said Mr. Smithson, who now runs an auto-repair shop.
In 1846, Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of half a million dollars had made it possible.
In 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established in Washington as a center for scientific research from funds left at the bequest of British scientist James Smithson.
"We are excited about the many possibilities this cutting-edge technology opens up and the impact it can have in many different situations, " said Geoff Smithson, technology director, sensing systems, at Cambridge Consultants.
ENGADGET: Cambridge Consultants develops indoor tech to pick up where GPS drops off
And had Ilkley fallen foul of the Beeching axe in 1963, pensioner David Smithson, from Ryhill near Wakefield, said the lack of a station in the spa town would affect his lifestyle today.
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Not all concrete ideals of the post-war building boom have survived, Alison and Peter Smithson's polemic Robin Hood Gardens in east London is not long for this life, despite the protestations of the architectural elite.
The Biennale will also feature several exhibitions with Texas ties, such as a new country song created by conceptual artist Mario Garcia Torres about the earthworks artist Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in Texas.
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"Our biggest challenges were developing an algorithm which optimally combines the data from GPS and the other sensors, and overcoming the issues of using such low-cost sensors in a system without any absolute location reference, " said Smithson.
ENGADGET: Cambridge Consultants develops indoor tech to pick up where GPS drops off
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