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...overtaken by men, who become doctors, engineers and computer technicians. Educators say they watch many bright girls suddenly recoil in the face of real, head-to-head competition with boys. In a math class at a Reykjavk school, Asgeir Gurdmundsson, 17, says that although girls were consistently brighter than boys at school, "they just seem to leave the technical jobs to us." Says Solrun Gensdottir, the director of education at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: "We have to find a way to stop girls from dropping out of sciences...
Perez sifted through Kodak's intellectual property to come up with a new plan. The picture was brighter than he expected. "People think our challenge in becoming digital is that we don't understand the technology," says Perez. "They're absolutely, terribly wrong. We have technology coming out of our ears." What the company didn't have was focus. Perez provided one, identifying three areas of concentration: consumer imaging, health imaging and commercial printing. To eliminate distractions, he sold Kodak's Remote Sensing Systems satellite business to ITT Industries for $725 million and began pulling Kodak out of a range...
...shape,” citing folk artist Emory Blagdon’s installation “The Healing Machine,” as a significant influence. People are represented through triangles of multicultural construction paper (a material stemming from multicultural crayons used to render different skin tones), while the brighter top row alludes to childhood learning experiences...
...where LCD-TV prices are headed, wander over to the PC side of your neighborhood electronics store and check out the flat computer monitors. You'll probably find that small LCD TVs are marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very...
...Bradstreet, the brighter side of the war lies in the community-based civilian projects and urban patrolling his division did in conjunction with the Iraqi Security Forces. Working on security and stability operations, Bradstreet and his fellow marines are attempting to better the circumstances in the local Iraqi community...