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	Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnson is a family name, and a place name.
		Louis A. Johnson, the second Secretary of Defense of the United States.
		Johnson, title character of a poem in L.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnson (559 words)

	George Johnson
		Johnson was born in Dayton, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1833, and there his early years were passed, his education coming from the district schools of his native county and Herkimer College, from which he was duly and honorably graduated.
		Johnson was born in New York City in 1853 and is the only member of her father's family in Kansas.
		Johnson is a lady of extensive knowledge, a close student, a lover of literature, and a writer of something more than local reputation.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/bioj/johnsog.html (875 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: George Johnson
		George Johnson is a science writer for the New York Times.
		In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable...
		Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=14604 (246 words)

	Chester County Hall of Heroes: George Alfred Johnson
		Private Johnson rushed to the mouth of the cave and continued to throw in grenades until he was killed, allowing his squad to advance.
		George was buried on Guadalcanal, and is memorialized on the tablets of the missing at the Manila American cemetery in the Philippines.
		The USS George A. Johnson was a destroyer escort of the Rudderow Class, displacing 1,450 tons, 300 feet long, a beam of 37 feet.
	dsf.chesco.org /heroes/johnson/gajohnson.html (913 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer - George Johnson - ...
		Johnson, a science writer for the New York Times, explains the quantum theory that makes the computer a reality and projects future applications in code breaking, solving previously unsolvable math equations, and understanding the mysterious behavior of certain protein molecules.
		On the dark side, Johnson warns that a quantum computer in the hands of a digital thief could be used to crack complex encryption codes that protect credit card transactions and other sensitive financial information or compromise the security of classified military information.
		Johnson spends some time examining ways in which the simple switches that are the basis for computers could be built from quantum parts.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2VZX0GONBP&isbn=0375411933&itm=2 (1410 words)

	The Twilight Zone George Clayton Johnson interview on TV Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson's career spans over four decades, and includes not only eight classic scripts and stories for The Twilight Zone, but also the feature films Ocean's 11 and Logan's Run, as well as teleplays for Honey West, the original Star Trek, and Kung Fu.
		George Clayton Johnson talks about his formative years as a young boy and a struggling writer, the influence of fellow Zone writer Charles Beaumont, and how early influences led him toward The Twilight Zone.
		For this segment, writer George Clayton Johnson, explores several of his classic Twilight Zone episodes, including one starring a callow young actor by the name of Redford.
	www.worldtalkradio.com /archive.asp?aid=1002 (318 words)

	The SF Site: All of Us Are Dying and Other Stories
		George Clayton Johnson (1929-) was born and brought up in rural Wyoming during the Depression.
		Because much of the writing of Johnson had to be geared for TV or film, it has many of the cultural and thematic limitations inherent in getting a story past the network/studio censors, and pleasing the sponsors; something that undoubtedly enhances its datedness.
		Georges Dodds is a research scientist in vegetable crop physiology, who for close to 25 years has read and collected close to 2000 titles of predominantly pre-1950 science-fiction and fantasy, both in English and French.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/all61.htm (1297 words)

	Quirks and Quarks
		Johnson expertly details the subsequent series of breakthroughs that ultimately led Gell-Mann, soon tenured at his longtime professional home, Caltech, to realize that all those varied members of the particle zoo were actually constructed from a simple set of building blocks.
		Johnson shows how physics at these ethereal levels is often played like a game of musical chairs.
		Johnson confesses that in the course of his writing he "had come to like this brilliant, complicated, always fascinating, and often exasperating man." The reader will too.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/13/027r-021300-idx.html (827 words)

	RELEASE: Times' George Johnson to be writer in residence
		MADISON - George Johnson, a prolific, award-winning science writer and author, has been named a University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Writer in Residence for the spring of 2000.
		Johnson is also the co-director of the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop and is a former Alicia Patterson fellow.
		Johnson will spend most of his time on campus working with students, faculty and staff interested in science writing.
	www.news.wisc.edu /releases/3841.html (366 words)

	Amazon.com: Fire In The Mind : Science, Faith, and the Search for Order: Books: George Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson manages, in only a little over 300 pages, to explore essential questions in the notion of structure in the universe, from the most elemental levels of quantum physics all the way through the emergence of intelligence without trivializing any of it.
		George Johnson has taken on some of the most difficult issues and questions woven into the fabric of science and religion and seperates them into their component threads to be examined by ordinary readers.
		Johnson explores these faiths in the context of the pueblos, mountains, cities and research institutions of this ancient land, and presents each of them with no hint of condescension or disparagement.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679411925?v=glance (2831 words)

	PG-Politics: Political News Briefs (Wednesday)
		Johnson has said his goal is to increase the number of officers to 1,800 by 2010.
		James Hubbard, D-Prince George's, recently filed a bill that would use $10 million in state funds to cover prescription drugs for participants in Medicare's new prescription program while problems are ironed out.
		The endorsements, however, were viewed as marginal considering the majority of the Prince George’s Senate delegation and County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) and House Economic Matters Chairman Dereck E. Davis (D-Dist. 25) of Upper Marlboro are all keeping their powder dry.
	pg-politics.blogspot.com /2006/02/political-news-briefs-wednesday.html (1368 words)

	Niel Johnson on George Sylvester Viereck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The University of Iowa Library acquired a sizable portion of the papers of George Sylvester Viereck.
		As an only child, and in the frequent absences of his father who was involved in free lance publicity work, be became especially attached to his mother, Laura.
		Although German-Americans were proud of their own ethnic heritage, few of them showed much interest in sponsoring or promoting the exchange of poets, writers, or other cultural interests.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/johnson2.htm (4133 words)

	George Clayton Johnson
		George Clayton Johnson was born in Cheyene, Wyoming on July 10, 1929, and grew up during the depression.
		In 1960, his first major sale was the film, Ocean’s Eleven, which has recently been remade starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt.
		George also wrote the first episode of Star Trek ever aired, and dozens more TV scripts for shows such as Route 66, Mr.
	chasholloway.com /sympathizers/id8.html (215 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| A Shortcut Through Time by George Johnson
		In this book, the award-winning New York Times science writer George Johnson first takes us back to the original idea of a computer—almost simple enough to be made of Tinkertoys—and then leads us through increasing levels of complexity to the soul of this remarkable new machine.
		Writing with a brilliant clarity, Johnson makes sophisticated material on (and even beyond) the frontiers of science both graspable and utterly fascinating, affording us a front-row seat at one of the most galvanizing scientific dramas of the new century.
		He has succeeded admirably…One of our most gifted science writers, Johnson is a master at bringing the reader along, giving increasingly better approximations to the truth.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375411939 (507 words)

	Physics Today Online - Books
		On the whole George Johnson, a science writer for The New York Times, has successfully met the challenge; Strange Beauty, his fine biography of Gell-Mann, written for the general literate public, is a stimulating, very readable account of Gell-Mann's life.
		Johnson has an impressive command of the history of high-energy physics during the 20th century, and he vividly details the background and context within which Gell-Mann's work was carried out.
		Johnson has also carefully recorded Gell-Mann's views regarding the reality of quarks, from his first suggestion of the model to his later reinterpretations of his initial views.
	www.aip.org /pt/vol-53/iss-8/p43.html (1162 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		George Clayton Johnson was born in and Cheyenne, Wyo., and currently lives in Southern California.
		Johnson: The truth of it is, I didn't work with Rod.
		Johnson: As a result of watching Robert Redford act and being around him—because I went there every day—I found every opportunity to talk to him.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue355/interview.html (2051 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| The Twilight Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade Wellman
		A prospector, threatened with death by a native conjuror for violating African land, feels himself stalked in the deserted streets of Manhattan by some giant jungle beast.
		A couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their six-year-old daughter who has fallen through a mysterious door into another dimension.
	www.scifi.com /twilightzone/episodes/season3.html (1531 words)

	Amazon.com: Strange Beauty : Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics: Books: George Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beauty lives up to the promise of its title.
		While Johnson relates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell-Mann's life is in large part the story of his and others' researches and discoveries.
		George Johnson beautifully describes the life and work of the Nobel-Prize physicist Murray Gell-Mann and the revolutionary history of elementary particle physics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679437649?v=glance (2885 words)

	Twightlight Zone Episode Guide
		TWENTY TWO ** Writer**: Rod Serling Director: Jack Smight Cast: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Fredd Wayne A woman is haunted by a recurring nightmare that always ends with her being escorted to hospital room 22 - the morgue.
		THE MUTE * Writer**: Richard Matheson Director: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Frank Overton, Barbara Baxley, Ann Jilliann, Irene Dailey, Hal Riddle, Percy Helton, Oscar Beregi, Eva Soreny A little girl raised on telepathic communication must adjust to the spoken word after her parents are killed in a fire.
		Writer: Rod Serling Director: Alan Crosland Cast: Steve Forrest, Jacqueline Scott, Frank Aletter, Shari Lee Bernath, Phillip Abbott, Pete Madsen, Robert Johnson, Morgan Jones Following a routine seven-day space flight, an astronaut is catapulted into a strange parallel universe.
	www.postdiluvian.org /~seven/funlib/twighlight.html (8991 words)

	Wofford College in the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson, chief executive officer and director of Extended Stay America, announced in May of that year that he would relocate the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based headquarters to downtown Spartanburg.
		John Poole, president and CEO of the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce, said Johnson's involvement as the largest franchisee in the Blockbuster system was a significant step in bringing a major corporate entity in the non-manufacturing arena to Spartanburg.
		He said Johnson took great strides to make sure his relocation downtown was a win-win situation for both parties.
	www.wofford.edu /woffordInTheNews/printFriendlyContent.asp?id=2 (851 words)

	Southern California Sorcerers - Twilight Zone contributors - by Chris Conlon
		Johnson was impressed with their personal and professional closeness, which by that point was expressing itself in a number of ways.
		It is this "writers first" policy that allowed such unforgettable episodes as Beaumont's "Long Live Walter Jameson" and "Shadow Play" and Matheson's "The Invaders" and "Death Ship" to be broadcast in precisely the form their authors intended.
		As for Johnson, he says he knew from early in their relationship that this Prince From a Far Land was not long for the world.
	www.rodserling.com /csorcerers.htm (6210 words)

	Times' Johnson to be writer in residence (Mar 28, 2000)
		George Johnson, a prolific, award-winning science writer and author, has been named a Science Writer in Residence for the spring of 2000.
		Johnson writes about science for The New York Times from Santa Fe, N.M. He is a winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1999 Science Journalism Award for large newspapers.
		While the goal of bringing new scientific ideas to the public is shared, there is a pronounced cultural friction between science and journalism about how this should be done.
	www.news.wisc.edu /3841.html (337 words)

	Paul Johnson: George Bush Is the Next Thatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For Johnson, it was all important that Blair continued Thatcher’s close relationship with the U.S. “I told Tony Blair that when he becomes Prime Minister he must always stick close to the Americans — they are our allies.
		Johnson’s book “A History of the American People” is a reflection of his enduring enthusiasm for the country.
		In 1980 Paul Johnson served as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and studied the rise of Ronald Reagan to the presidency.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/6/29/165231.shtml (1487 words)

	Soul Shine Magazine : Jack Johnson sings for Curious George
		George is a silent monkey, so Johnson had to dig deep to express the monkey’s emotions through song.
		Johnson has written 6 of the 12 songs on the album, including tracks like “The Sharing Song” and “The Three R’s,” which are typical children’s songs, as well as tunes like “Wrong Turn,” which sound a lot like Johnson’s ‘adult’ tunes.
		I love the soundtrack for curious george and i've been a long time fan of jack Johnson.
	www.soulshine.ca /news/newsarticle.php?nid=2884 (653 words)

	Santa Fe Science-Writing Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		George Johnson, a New York Times science writer, whose books include Miss Leavitt's Stars, Fire in the Mind, and In the Palaces of Memory.
		Some were working science writers who wanted to hone their skills and meet more of their colleagues.
		Some were writers from other fields hoping to make the switch to science writing.
	sciwrite.org /sciwrite/sciwrite.html (551 words)

	Chicago Defender / Local (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and nearly 100 of his brothers paid tribute to him during a ceremony reserved for deceased members.
		Johnson's wife, Eunice, daughter and JPC CEO Linda Johnson Rice, and granddaughter, Alexis, were present to welcome the first visitors and remained through the Alpha tribute.
		George Johnson said John H. Johnson's story from his humble roots in Arkansas is amazing.
	www.chicagodefender.com /page/local.cfm?ArticleID=1935 (1450 words)

	A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer : HBS Working Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Now imagine a computer in which each switch is the size of an individual atom.
		It’s called quantum computing, and while still in the early development stage, this realization of quantum mechanics could have profound impacts on society, argues George Johnson, a science writer for The New York Times.
		Johnson sees applications in everything from cryptography to the study of quantum physics itself—if sizable roadblocks can be overcome.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /book-review.jhtml?id=3471&t=technology (136 words)

	A Giant Amongst Monsters
		Other famous writers and filmmakers, the likes of Ray Bradbury, Steven Spielberg and Harlan Ellison, owe their careers to the former literary agent, mentor and friend.
		John Landis (Animal House director), Anne Robinson (lead actress of the classic, War of the Worlds film), and George Clayton Johnson (story writer for Star Trek, the original and updated, Twilight Zone, and other TV shows, plus screenwriter of Logan's Run and Ocean's 11) spoke kind words about the legend who is Forry.
		In particular, George reminisced with the crowd on how he used Forry's celebrity to network with the big shots of the industry, and how his friendship with the man landed him his first, professional science fiction convention speaking engagement -- inside a smelly old high school gym in greater Los Angeles.
	scifipulse.net /editorials/Forrest_Ackerman.html (461 words)

	Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
		Greeted by empty streets, a man searches a small town to find that he is completely and inexplicably alone.
		In a hospital room, her face completely covered by medical wrappings, a woman waits to see if a last-chance operation has fixed her freakish appearance, for which she could be sent to a reservation of outcasts.
		A newly released mental patient traveling on an airplane is the only passenger able to see a gremlin ripping up the wing.
	www.thirteen.org /pressroom/release.php?get=1009 (537 words)

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