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...conflicted by the greater focus on commercialization, feeling that it might impede research in areas with a lower probability of direct-market applicability but which could nevertheless lead to advances in fundamental scientific knowledge.” Such conflict has traditionally been the dominant culture at Harvard, according to McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards. “Technology transfer had relatively little value relative to other intellectual products of university life and research,” he wrote in an e-mail. In contrast, students and faculty at MIT are more open to commercial...
...this unpredictability, this sense of mayhem and inventiveness, that keeps Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby on track and always gaining momentum. That - and director Adam McKay's skill in mixing up Ferrell's shtick with a strong supporting cast, keeping the vehicle from bogging down amid Ricky Bobby's immature tirades and boyish antics.For those who loved Ferrell's arrogant newsman in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, also directed by McKay, here Ferrell again struts about, proclaiming in a later scene that his nickname "El Diablo" means "fighting chicken," much as he explained in Anchorman that...
...American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac”; and Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.” Other courses include Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” taught by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, and English 125, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” taught by Visual and Environmental Studies Department Chair Marjorie Garber. Students taking these classes through the Extension school pay $650 to take the class for no credit or Extension School credit...
...fatigue as they travel from the Colorado office to other U.S. locations, like Hawaii, or to Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia to meet with vendors and train new franchisees who sell the company's high-end gift baskets. But that isn't enough for CEO Cynthia McKay. She believes that good sleep means good business, and she has made it part of her company's workplace culture. In one of two designated sleep areas in Le Gourmet's offices, employees can nap for 15 or 30 minutes on a foldout couch or single cot. If the alarm clock doesn...
...McKay is part of a small but growing movement in corporate America to address the consequences of a nation of sleep-deprived workers. Longer commutes, midnight e-mails and a global economy that requires work over many time zones have made a solid eight hours of sleep as rare as a three-martini lunch. According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation costs U.S. business more than $100 billion a year in lost productivity and damage to workers' health and safety. An estimated 80,000 drivers a day, for example, doze off while behind the wheel. And supporting those exhausted...