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...variety of start-ups, including the legendary and doomed NeXT Computer, where he was wooed by Jobs. He arrived at Apple in 1997, about the time Jobs returned from exile and, as one of Jobs' trusted lieutenants, ran the hardware side of the company. The candy-colored gumdrop iMac he built helped haul Apple back from the brink. When Jobs decided that Apple should make a digital-music player, it was Rubinstein who discovered a tiny hard drive at Toshiba's research labs that would be the soul of the new machine: the iPod. (See the top iPhone applications...
...love imagination, and I loved this episode. I love to imagine about dragons, and gumdrop forests, and the Cubs one day winning the World Series...
...sound like I’m speaking to five-year olds, not the distinguished Harvard students that we all are. But moving away from the land of books to the land of sports, many of the students are acting like kids. Little kids with braids and lollipop, gumdrop dreams. You know what? Gumdrops don’t exist in football land. Only in Candy Land by Mattel.So when you hear some chants, cheers, “Cheng Ho, Sweet Carriers,” being started up, help us out and participate. Participate your little patoots off.Principle 3: Unleash the BeastI?...
...Marianne took pains to explain the careful reasoning behind Aliza’s choice of satire: “She’s Jewish,” she said, pointing.In the end, Notre-Dame came in second place, losing only to a pagoda over a pond adorned with gumdrop lily-pads. Despite the cathedral’s dominance over many other sugar constructions, the sun, though setting in the West, was rising in the East. The contest was over, and we entered the Mather servery to discover that tonight’s entree was General Tso’s Chicken...
There's more science than sorcery in the way we eyeball faces and respond to what we see. Our species wouldn't survive if we weren't suckers for what's called neoteny--features like large eyes, an oversize head and a gumdrop nose that signal babyness. We swoon at such traits in people and animals, which is one evolutionary explanation for why we rush to the aid of a lost child or stray puppy instead of, you know, eating them. Stanford University studies showed that the same area of the brain that responds to faces also processes objects like...