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...scene in which a character was to be shown "talking to himself". Instead of a voiceover, his South Korean animators drew him with his lips moving. The next showed him talking to a mirror. Schwartz says studios now use videoconferencing and dedicated websites to troubleshoot such miscommunications. A bigger challenge may be finding experienced illustrators. Says Mohan: "We have no problem understanding the script. But what we don't have is enough trained people." India's National Association of Software and Service Companies predicted that as many as 30,000 new animators will be needed by 2009. Still, if demand...
...look like the heavy hand of a nanny state at work, George W. Bush's Administration has focused its anti-obesity efforts primarily on public education. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson wore a pedometer to tout his department's Small Step initiative. But pressure for bigger strides is building. Says Harkin: "This is not just a personal problem. It's a public-health problem." He wants the Agriculture Department to regulate all food--not just meals--being served in schools. The rules now are set at the state and local levels, with widely varying standards, although...
...finding of a 2005 survey of Americans ages 8 to 18 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, co-authored by Roberts, is not that kids were spending a larger chunk of time using electronic media--that was holding steady at 6.5 hours a day (could it possibly get any bigger?)--but that they were packing more media exposure into that time: 8.5 hours' worth, thanks to "media multitasking"--listening to iTunes, watching a DVD and IMing friends all at the same time. Increasingly, the media-hungry members of Generation M, as Kaiser dubbed them, don't just sit down to watch...
...bigger worry with those sites isn't so much the privacy or security issues, though those are real enough. It's the sheer amount of screen-sucking time they consume in lives that are already overscheduled. Being a teenager is one enormous exercise in time management. Watching my kids try to juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex...
...Chen said yesterday. This situation would have been the “worst-case scenario,” she added. Chen and her blockmates have since decided not to link with the other group. But according to Director of Housing Joshua McIntosh, size does not matter. “Bigger, or smaller, blocking groups have no impact on how students are randomly assigned to the houses,” McIntosh wrote in an e-mail.Several freshmen said they were ambivalent about the advantages of neighborhood blocking. “I’m not even getting into linking because blocking...