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...60th anniversary by conducting a public poll to select the best work of fiction that had won the award. To make the short list for this poll, the National Book Foundation balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” and Ralph Ellison?...
Teamwork—an element generally absent in most art forms—also becomes essential. CDT members must perform in sync—“like the Rockettes,” Szpak says—while HBDT dancers work with partners. These pairings are chosen based on physical compatibility (a taller male partner facilitates certain moves) and motivation. Dancers who push themselves differently or set imbalanced goals eventually clash and split up. “In ballroom you rely a ton on your partner, especially as a woman, since you follow: he decides what you do next...
Since Google unveiled plans in February to build - for free - an ultra-fast fiber-optic network in one or more U.S. cities, local officials across the land have been engaged in quirky battles of one-upmanship to get their hometown chosen as a demo site. Topeka, Kans., renamed itself Google for the month of March. The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., went swimming in a shark tank as a publicity stunt. And Greenville organized a "We Are Feeling Lucky" campaign - a play on Google's second most famous search button - with enough glow sticks to form a massive Google logo...
...something of a skeptic about the iPad myself until I held one in my hands when Jobs came here to do a presentation at Time Inc. We've chosen to put Jobs on the cover - with a powerful new photograph of him by Marco Grob - and tell the story of the making of the iPad in part because we believe that the device and others like it, from companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Sony, will change people's lives by ushering in a new era of portable computing...
Most of Ricketts' friends are now out of the military, having chosen to return to civilian life at the end of their enlistment. When his best friend, Kevin Allen, decided to leave the military, Ricketts demurred, saying, "What else could I do? I'm not going to bag groceries. I'm not going to wait on someone hand and foot...