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...most avid die-cast robot aficionados have put videos of their collections on the Internet: overblown prose describes each robot in joint-by-joint detail. Nakamura scoffs at videotaping, but he admits to owning a few photos of his favorites. And from time to time, he writes about his robots in his magazine. Not because the readers may care, but because it's his magazine and he can do whatever he wants. That's the power of being the ultimate Giant Robot...
...leader," says Carp, a tall, hulking, 30-year Kodak veteran and an avid hoops player who took over the helm from George Fisher more than a year ago. "You trust your memories to a brand synonymous with pictures...
...said he does not yet have specific plans for his position as Senior Tutor, but, as an avid basketball player, he does plan for Lowell House to win the basketball intramurals...
Vivienne Sworder remembers the day last year when she first discovered the artwork of Thomas Kinkade. An avid collector of dollhouse furniture, she was browsing for additional pieces while on vacation in Florida. "My husband kept disappearing," she recalls. "We were looking at furniture, and he kept disappearing." She eventually found him on a sofa in a quiet corner of the store. His excuse: not that he was shirking his dollhouse duty. He had been so transfixed by a painting that he felt compelled to sit and gaze at it. The sun-dappled gardenscape also captivated Vivienne and distracted...
Though a prominent lawyer in New York City, Kissel was also an avid scholar of Hindu philosophy. His studies of human morals inspired an interest in ethics, eventually leading to his support for the creation of an ethics program at Harvard. It was former University President Derek C. Bok's idea to fund professors teaching ethics and to encourage instruction among the teaching community that Kissel found his cause...