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...finding experienced illustrators. Says Mohan: "We have no problem understanding the script. But what we don't have is enough trained people." India's National Association of Software and Service Companies predicted that as many as 30,000 new animators will be needed by 2009. Still, if demand for animation takes off in India, the industry will find a way to attract talent. Says Kapur: "The appetite for Eastern mythology - Chinese, Indian, Japanese - is clear in the rest of the world if you look at the success of Kill Bill or the mysticism of Harry Potter or Japanese anime...
Koonz and Turkle believe that today's students are less tolerant of ambiguity than the students they taught in the past. "They demand clarity," says Koonz. They want identifiable good guys and bad guys, which she finds problematic in teaching complex topics like Hutu-Tutsi history in Rwanda. She also thinks there are political implications: "Their belief in the simple answer, put together in a visual way, is, I think, dangerous." Koonz thinks this aversion to complexity is directly related to multitasking: "It's as if they have too many windows open on their hard drive. In order to have...
...second goal of the proposed Women’s Center is to provide space for student groups, particularly those that primarily serve women. With most student groups, including those with offices in the basement of Yard dorms, moving to Hilles Library in the Quad this fall, the demand for meeting space near the Yard will be higher than ever. Having some space in the Yard for these student groups seems like the most worthwhile aim of the project. Indeed, over 60 percent of the students who filled out the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) online survey about the women?...
...delay also gives Microsoft time to work out manufacturing difficulties it experienced with its global rollout of the Xbox 360 last year. Traditionally, game consoles launched in stages, starting with a Japan release, followed by U.S. and European introductions. Microsoft had difficulties meeting demand for Xbox, and in February announced it had added a third manufacturing partner to increase production. More news on Microsoft's manufacturing capacity is expected at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose next week...
...They?re afraid that a tough measure [will provoke] Iran into an irrational reaction" that would spur the West to demand global economic sanctions," says the U.S. official. The Russians, he says, "are not ready for sanctions. They want to buy time, stretch the process out." But no one is making it easy on them. In addition to Rice's entreaty, U.S. Ambassasdor to Russia William Burns paid a call Tuesday on Lavrov, and, according to the Interfax News Agency, French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy also telephoned...