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Frank, obviously, has a drinking problem. And it is interfering with his job performance. Indeed, he sleeps straight through his next assignment. Since he's a hit man for a fading mob, that is not exactly a good career move. His boss (Philip Baker Hall) orders him to San Francisco to dry out. On the face of it, this is not a good idea; Frank is not what you'd call a logical candidate for AA pieties. He's perhaps a better fit for the job that's found for him in a funeral parlor; dead bodies...
...Fluent in English-a rarity in Japanese science-Yamanaka worked in the U.S. in the early 1990s. He'll be spending more time in America later this year-he has accepted a post as a visiting scientist at the J. David Gladstone Institute in San Francisco. But his overseas travels will be limited. Yamanaka says he'll remain based in Japan because he doesn't want to pull his children out of high school. He has also been a father figure to younger colleagues-one that isn't afraid to share the credit. "He's a guiding teacher," says Kazutoshi...
...Google has maintained that these street-view images were captured in broad daylight on public streets - hardly an invasion of privacy. Over several months, Google staff (who took shots in San Francisco), as well as employees of a third-party firm (which did the same in Miami, Denver, New York and Las Vegas), equipped vehicles in select cities with imaging equipment and drove the streets, snapping photos of everything in sight. At maps.google.com, users can drag a human figurine over one of the highlighted streets in those cities, and a window will open that displays the photo taken at that...
...prove his point, Chau, who moved to San Francisco recently, pointed to the way he has personally used the service to learn more about his new city, virtually navigating through his neighborhood and even logging on before going to bed to zoom in on Google's images of the parking signs lining his street, to make sure he won't get a parking ticket in the morning...
...character animation. Even though it's a completely unbelievable thing, people invest in it," he says. "If we do our job on this one, audiences will empathize with, and invest in, a rat." That's because the creative children at Pixar's Lego- like headquarters in the San Francisco suburb of Emeryville realize that movies, and especially cartoons, are not just talking pictures. They are motion and emotion pictures. And if you don't have heart...