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...What was the hardest skill set to learn...
What happened next explains why the men who survive the world's hardest job share some things no one else can understand. With some time to kill, Bush got happily lost in the Clinton galleries until a tourist approached him near one exhibit and said, "Hey, you look a lot like George Bush." Replied 41: "I am George Bush." Word spread quickly, and as Bush made his way back down a corridor, a group of schoolchildren broke into spontaneous applause. The kids were paying their respects to one President as he was paying his respects to another...
...hardest things to portray in fiction is the creative process; it's more interesting to watch, say, Jackson Pollack empty a whiskey bottle than a tube of paint. But somehow, this gimmicky, bitchy, wonderful reality show pulled it off, by challenging a set of aspiring fashion designers to do things like make a garment out of products from a grocery store (the corn-husk dress won). Unlike so many reality game shows, Runway actually cast intelligent, interesting creative people interested in doing good work in their field rather than media whores out to become future Style channel hosts...
Milkshakes might bring all the boys to the yard, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they like to get their pictures taken. Laura has already used both her wits and her sass to get pictures of some of the hardest-to-get-at figures on campus (think Lawrence H. Summers, post-vote of lack of confidence), and will continue to do so in the next year as one of the beloved FM photo czars...
Trouble was, the new glues cost three times as much. So Timberland's engineers cut the volume of the adhesive required to manufacture the boots enough to break even. "I can now make the fact-based case to the hardest-nosed engineer in the world that we've eliminated the volume of volatile organic compounds" without increasing costs, says Swartz. "That's not limousine liberal, not self-indulgent. It is hard-nosed business. That is the innovation we seek." When foreign vendors complain that water-based adhesives are too expensive, Swartz says, Timberland invites their engineers to its plant...