Word: fasters
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...opposite artistic personalities. Pixar (Toy Story, Finding Nemo, WALL-E) is the clear avatar of the Walt Disney style, stressing sympathetic characters and seamless storytelling. DreamWorks (the Shrek trilogy, Shark Tale) updates the dazzle and impudence of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of the '30s, '40s and '50s - a faster pace, lots of sight gags and pop-culture allusions; its movies tend toward anarchy but land in vaudeville. DreamWorks is contemporary, Pixar timeless. Both work. (See the 100 best albums, movies, TV shows and novels of all time...
...tests account for faster driving, acceleration and deceleration and air-conditioning use - in other words, the way most real people drive. As a result fuel-economy ratings have dropped about 12% for city driving and about 8% for highway driving. When the new tests kicked in, a 2006 Toyota Prius, for instance, went from having a 55 m.p.g. combined efficiency rating to 46 m.p.g. - overnight...
...minority, to be sure - believe the U.S. is at serious risk of a deflationary spiral, even if just a quarter ago, inflation was above the Fed's comfort zone of 2% to 3%. "Compared to Japan's problem a decade ago, this crisis is unfolding much faster and spreading wider due to financial globalization," says Shanghai-based independent economist Andy Xie. A financial system unable or unwilling to lend, a tapped out U.S. consumer, and business now retrenching - and laying people off - all are a formula for possible deflation. What's so wrong with declining prices? For one thing...
Harry Brown walked slowly but with great dignity. Unexpectedly, his wife drove up, having completed her morning mission to deliver wheelchairs to precincts where exhausted voters might need them. Brown loaded his folding chair and climbed into the car. His journey was, in the end, faster than he had expected...
...shows no signs of wanting to grow closer to it. This is as unfair as any image - contradicted at every moment by the kindness and curiosity of many Americans - but it remains a potent one in a world where people communicate more with images than ideas and assumptions travel faster than truths. The best way to begin to correct it is to show the world a leader who can't really say how much he's African or Asian or American or just a product of their mixing in Hawaii. The point is not just that Obama will bring globalism...