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LEFT: Ida Tarbell, photographed between 1905 and 1945. RIGHT: Robert Bork in 1987.
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SAN FRANCISCO - MAY 28: Genna Dubrob (L) and Manuel Ordonez (R) move a finished mattress at McRoskey Mattress May 28, 2009 in San Francisco, California. New orders for US durable goods rose 1.9 percent in April, the biggest monthly gain since December 2007. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Former IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. sits at one of the electronic data processing machines made by his company, May 24, 1956. (AP Photo)
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A woman uses a laptop on April 3, 2019, in Abidjan. According to the figures of the platform of the fight against cybercrime (PLCC) of the national police, nearly one hundred crooks of the internet, were arrested in 2018 in Ivory Coast, a country known for its scammers on the web (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
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A tourists is seen in silhouette in front of the Matterhorn mountain in Riffelalp above Zermatt, Switzerland.
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