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Photojournalists know the future of the form will depend upon their power to make it new, as Ezra Pound used to say, to take full command of new resources and navigate some fishy waters. In the '80s color clinched its victory. The gravity of black-and-white, the hard and durable tones of an anvil, gave way decisively. But color is tricky. Blood shouts, and the smallest patch of yellow adobe pounds hard on the retina. So a generation of photographers have learned to draw that very clamor into a deliberate statement. The hot pinks and fluorescent lime in Alex...
...hopelessly mired in anthropocentrism, but I find McKibben's argument a bit elitist. The people who would suffer most by a general cutback in technology are those who don't have a house in the mountains. Citizens of underdeveloped countries and America's own poor depend on technolgy as a means of providing food, as a gateway to better lives. Who is to be sacrificed so that the wealthy of today and tommorow can enjoy gardens...
Working with a bacterium and a pond-dwelling protozoan, Altman, 50, and Cech, 41, independently discovered that RNA can act as an enzyme, a molecule that accelerates chemical reactions a millionfold or more and makes it possible for life to exist. Plants, for example, depend on enzymes to convert carbon dioxide in the air to sugar and starch. An enzyme in human saliva helps transform starch into glucose, the body's energy source. Until RNA enzymes were identified, all enzymes were thought to be proteins...
...information (and value) onto slivers of silicon whose material content represents less than 1% of their total expense. As chips are incorporated into everything from furnaces to cars, the value of these products resides increasingly in the "intelligence" stored in their electronic components. In the future, industrial might will depend less on mass production and more on the creative use of information technology. Gilder calls this phenomenon the "overthrow of matter" by ideas...
...particular mix of qualifications that an employer prefers will depend on the job being filled. The more you know about what the employer is looking for, the better you can tailor your presentation. If you are an undergraduate, graduating senior, or graduate student seeking summer or part-time employment, your resume will be a presentation that documents your general qualifications, such as your ability to learn quickly, to adapt to new environments, to research, analyze, and solve problems, to work with and lead a team, to follow instructions, to deal with ambiguity, to make decisions, and to communicate effectively...