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...films and TV programs still use traditional animation, which begins with hand-sketched images on paper, the success of movies such as Shrek and Toy Story has meant that films and TV serials are increasingly being digitally animated, produced entirely on computers using 3-D graphics. That's a boon for India, with its expertise in software and computer skills. While creative control is retained in the U.S.?a team of American master animators comes up with the look of each character, and scriptwriters determine the plots and dialogue?the task of creating each episode is outsourced to Indian animators...
...acquisition of Mullainathan is a huge boon to Harvard, as Harvard and MIT’s economics departments are widely considered to be the two best in the world...
Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1947 to 1952. He negotiated the first contract that gave actors royalties for films but not for television work (a boon to his old friend Wasserman, who would run the largest TV production company). He also applied grease to the wheels of the anticommunist witch hunt. Reagan had been reflexively left-wing in the '30s and '40s. Edmund Morris, his authorized biographer, believes the story that Reagan had tried to join the Communist Party but was rejected on the grounds that he would be more valuable as a fellow...
...don’t think it’s lucky to benefit from grade inflation,” Mansfield says. “It detracts from your honors when 91 percent of your class gets them…The change in grade inflation will be a big boon to our best students...
...British government decision to green-light over-the-counter-sales of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, the first such approval in the world. Starting in July, Zocor - made by U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck, but marketed in Britain by Johnson & Johnson - will be available without prescription. A health boon? Perhaps, but with statins the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.K. - draining $1.2 billion from the National Health Service each year - the measure appears "motivated more by cost than clinical reasons," says Daniel Reynolds, spokesman at the King's Fund, a British health foundation. Still, for companies...