Word: modeling
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Last spring Erin's parents took her off Ritalin and enrolled her at UC Irvine's Child Development Center, a model program that specializes in ADD and ADHD. She attended the school's summer program. "It was a horrid summer," Tim recalls. "Behavior modification was controlling a lot of things, but the impulsivity would snowball. She would be told not to touch something--whether a car's gearshift or a radio or a computer. You'd say 'Don't touch,' and she would look at you and you could see she heard, but you'd see her hand slowly moving...
...help staff its hog-processing plant and farms, Seaboard has re-created the corporate model employed by the coal barons of the 1800s, whose workers lived in company-owned houses and shopped in company-owned stores...
...when the boss hands out a visual wish list for the tech guys to make come true. A recent tour of the Pixar studio, hidden in the freeway sprawl east of San Francisco, made clear how projects like A Bug's Life erase the boundaries between technology and art. Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just how the characters' limbs should move. Graphics jocks transform 2-D pictures into 3-D worlds, agonizing over how to make raindrops splatter realistically when they hit the ground...
...view, Epps' retirement provides the administration with the opportunity to hire someone who will be our representative, the metaphorical Allston Burr Senior Tutor of the College, who will be at once accessible to students and responsive to their concerns. And just as Dean Epps acted as a role model to many black students on campus, the next Dean of Students should also be a role model to those not already covered by Lewis, Knowles or Rudenstine...
...many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats, the Governors will discuss making an elected official, perhaps Engler himself or Virginia's JIM GILMORE, the G.O.P.'s new front man, while a more seasoned Washington fund raiser could run the party day to day. Leading the race for the No. 2 spot is WAYNE...