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...Dassault is an industry leader in powerful modeling software, used by aerospace and automotive engineers to design parts and products. Its clients include Boeing, Airbus, Daimler and Ferrari. "Its core markets are fairly static. What it's trying to do is broaden its reach and find new markets," says Adam Shepherd, an analyst with investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort. In recent years Dassault has successfully branched out to many other industries, including fashion and consumer electronics. Cutting-edge architect Frank Gehry uses Dassault software to model his buildings...
...Catherine Mayer's reference to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations could usefully include Smith's cynical view of politicians: "that insidious and crafty animal vulgarly called a statesman or politician." Gordon Brown's many soubriquets - Iron Chancellor, Clunking Fist, Prudence Brown, Ditherer and Mr. Bean - suggest why an authoritarian Chancellor makes a poor Prime Minister. Brown's obsession with minutiae is best demonstrated by his Byzantine tax-credit system, which requires taxpayers to complete vexing forms to reclaim the tax that was due to them in the first place. What is frustrating is that he constantly reminds British...
...movies, which suggest, actually, that left alone for three seconds, two people will screw each other over in really complicated ways that need to be figured out for hours after the play, over drinks and dinner. But he seemed to mean it. Mamet is reading so much (Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek) and writing even more (cartooning for the Huffington Post; blogging from the perspective of the main character in his new Broadway play, November; writing articles for magazines; composing essays about the theater) that he's like an increasingly efficient machine, his efforts all cleanly converted to output...
This could be a boon to middle-agers whose concentration is slipping, since studies show just how vital paying attention can be to forming memories. In one study, neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, recruited two groups of subjects--one ages 19 to 30 and the other 60 to 77--and scanned their brains while they were looking at pictures of human faces, then again when they were viewing landscapes. This allowed him to map out where in the brain they were taking in these images. Then he put the volunteers back in the scanner...
...most presumptuous of the chattering classes, columnist Adam Goldenberg ’08, made no apologies for his “political, even partisan stance” of urging President Faust to declaim against DADT at the commissioning ceremony. The military’s discriminatory policy, to Goldenberg, clearly overrides any respect for prudence or decorum. Evidently, the slightest support of ROTC without an accompanying jeremiad against DADT signifies complicity in oppression...