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Mitchell, a Jude Law look-alike and an avid skier in the off-season, is still improving his technologies--and he's on a mission to spread the word on how it's done. This winter, he plans to zero in on high-speed farming--that is, making every operation much faster. "We're adding suspension to the machines and improving the algorithms for guidance," he says. "The benefit will be smaller, lighter machines that have less impact on the environment and that are more affordable to family farms...
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s interest in photography is one example of the ways in which art and the sciences have become interconnected by these professors. Professor Pinker, an avid photographer, has taken pictures of diverse locations ranging from Cambridge, Mass. to New Zealand. Once in graduate school, Professor Pinker noted the links between his psychological research and the art of photography. He says, “One reason that it meshes with my interests in psychology, in particular, [is] visual perception—how do we see a 3-D scene from...
...view the demise of racetrack betting as a victory for virtue, in Hong Kong the decline of an institution as influential as the HKJC would be a financial blow felt by the entire city. It's no secret that Hong Kong, a city of 6.8 million, is full of avid gamblers. The $8.3 billion they bet on the ponies last year was only slightly less than the horse-racing wagers of France. A gambling tax in Hong Kong contributes significantly to government coffers. The HKJC is the city's largest single taxpayer, accounting for 11.5% of total tax revenue last...
...high schools are lavishing attention on ninth-graders because experience shows that incoming students who don't have good study habits and preparation for the academic demands of high school usually lag behind and stay there. Huron High has added classes for middling achievers called Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID), designed for freshmen who enter with a GPA between 2.0 and 3.5 and show the potential to succeed in honors classes. The AVID classes teach them how to take notes and study for exams more effectively, and provide tutoring. Samir Webster, who came to Huron last year with pretty good...
...movie) "The Women," which proposed that Manhattan's most privileged females were rolling and roiling in bitchery, gossip and recriminations, all designed to bring other women down. "And when cheese-and-wine sessions to discuss orgasms first hit (durng the '70s), women discovered that the competition was never as avid as had been portrayed in 'The Women' - that they were better at being on each other's side than they were at competing." I guess he hasn't seen "Desperate Housewives...