OUR THANKS TO GEORGE MITCHELL

摘要

He was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1919, the son of Greek immigrants, and he died there in July 2013 at age 94, a billionaire. But through the years in between, oh what a life! George P. Mitchell has been highly praised since his passing. Tributes have stacked up from oil and gas industry executives who owe so much to the so-called Father of Fracing. Others have mentioned his lifelong love of science, especially of astronomy and physics; and his study of sustainability—the greatest example of which is The Woodlands, a master-planned community north of Houston that has been emulated by urban planners around the world.