Word: liven
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...Gusmorino-Lee website, which included music and full motion Flash animation, left other candidates scrambling to liven up their own Internet pretences. Smith's webmaster spent eight hours last Wednesday adding Flash animation to Smith's website. Likewise, other campaigns, including Smith's, began campaigning at Loker Commons' Fly-By a day after Gusmorino's volunteers handed out more than 300 flyers during lunch...
...roll of film on ['Huru']." Not surprisingly, the groundskeepers of UMass Boston have had some of the most profound exposure to the artwork and to Tucker's insight on it. David Lanchester, a heavy equipment operator who's been instrumental in much of the installation, agrees that the pieces liven the campus' aesthetic appeal: "Some of it is nice, but some is a little much. It breaks up the prism look of the university and makes it more livable," he says, while playfully punching the curator who's poured his heart into the project. Tucker is aglow when he hears...
...deputy, Adi Ignatius. "TIME Asia is in great shape, thanks to Don's leadership," says Ignatius, who was the Wall Street Journal's bureau chief in Beijing and Moscow as well as business editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. "I hope to build on that, continuing to liven up the magazine; see it become edgier, wittier, more personality driven, more interactive." He will get help from an import of sorts. After two years in New York City as a writer in TIME's Business section, Karl Taro Greenfeld will become Ignatius' deputy. Says Greenfeld, who was born in Japan...
...people questioned in a recent study by N.F.O. Interactive admitted to spending at least 25 min. during the workday using the Net for personal pursuits. But after a while it gets dull checking the five-day forecast on weather.com or hoping some news will break on CNN.com to liven up your mundane Monday. So if you need a quick fix that won't get you fired because it takes all day, here are a few sure bets...
Mathematicians are not convinced. By all means, liven up the textbooks, make the subject engaging and include interesting problems. But don't give up on basic skills! Conceptual understanding can and must coexist with computational facility--we do not need to choose between them...