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...means of a dark red filter. "Visualization"?deciding in advance how a photo will look, rather than clicking away in the hope of a fortunate accident?is the essence of Adams' work. It is the difference between approaching a trout with a dry fly and dynamiting the brook...
...programs. Now that they are encouraged to start out in management training programs or go on to study law, medicine or business management, young women graduates are less apt to want to move from campus to a secretarial pool. Says Sheila Rather, an executive with the Manhattan office of Brook Street Bureau of May fair Ltd., a personnel agency: "Business has never accepted the fact that a secretary also wants a career path." At the same time, efforts to attract men to secretarial work have fared poorly, while minorities prefer to take advantage of affirmative action programs that enable them...
MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN Directed by Peter Brook Screenplay by Jeanne de Salzmann and Peter Brook...
Baffled scientists are still unsure why the cicadas behave as they do, but suspect that it may all be a defense against predators like birds. As Entomologist Chris Simon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook writes in Natural History, when the cicadas finally emerge, it is in the shadows of dusk. They also gain protection from their monstrous numbers-as many as 1.5 million per acre. Finally, since they appear only once every 13 or 17 years, nature may have endowed them with an unlikely mathematical defense. These are prime numbers, divisible only by themselves...
...back to an old root meaning "to wander about, looking for something," occurred in 1970, when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium held at Upjohn Co.'s Brook Lodge in Michigan. A member of the audience passed a copy of the speech to Dr. Franz Joseph Ingelfinger, then the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger had already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research should be made compatible with good, clear...