Word: channell
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That would sound like cult-leader talk from anyone else. But a visitor to Pixar HQ in Emeryville, Calif. (where the upscale cafeteria serves iced tea, not Kool-Aid), finds a workforce that is able to channel a child's sense of play and wild imagination into the business of CGI moviemaking. The trick: never grow up. Lasseter's office shelves groan with hundreds of gewgaws from Pixar films. "I love toys," he says unabashedly. "A lot of animators love toys...
...grow to many times that. "We need to get bigger if we want to make a dent in congestion and pollution," says Jim Sebastian, planner for the district's department of transportation. And just like Paris, Washington is using bus-shelter ad space to pay for the program. Clear Channel's outdoor-advertising unit paid for the exclusive right to sell shelter ads and is pouring a percentage of that revenue into a scalable system that ties in with city bus and subway routes. Says Martina Schmidt, the company's SmartBike director: "The more drop-off stations, the easier...
...think the deeper point is that engineering is an inevitable expression of our inner drive to imagine and re-imagine. Our goal should be to remain wise enough to channel such passion in positive directions while always considering the broader implications...
...procedure. The 20 members remained in the station to protest the policy, and after approximately 30 minutes, the police came to formally ask the group to leave the premises. Four of the 20 did not cooperate, leading to their arrest. As the four sat in jail, a news channel on the television set before them documented their recent arrest. Fellow inmates asked for their signatures, Ross said in a telephone interview. “Even some of the police officers who were going through our finger prints and mugshots said they support our cause and encouraged us to continue...
This year’s class is graduating in an amazing era of customization and niches, in which new technologies help us to channel ourselves in our preferred directions. For many people, it is both desirable and possible to create something like a Daily Me, or a MyUniversity.com, or a What-Pleases-Me.com. Many students use Facebook in just this way; they are expanding their horizons, to be sure, but in a way that can lead, paradoxically, to the emergence of groups that are both large and stunningly homogenous. Or consider student organizations. Harvard has a remarkably large assortment of groups, often...