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...into animation, but you've taken a real front-of-the-camera role. I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did. With the Family Guy pilot, part of me doing the voices was that there wasn't any money to hire actors. But there was also a very specific vocal and delivery style that I was after. It was just easier to do it myself...
...have been, however, some major advances in the last six to eight years in rasing the quality of scientific evaluation of educational innovations.” Over the next three years, EdLabs, which will fall under Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), plans to implement pilot strategies in the test cities, accumulate data on student performance, and circulate findings among policy-makers and educators, according to a press release.—Staff writer Alexandra Perloff-Giles can be reached at aperloff@fas.harvard...
...Joined the Army Air Corps at age 19 and was a fighter pilot with the Flying Tigers during WWII...
...Under a five-year pilot project called Purchase for Progress, the foundations will help 350,000 or so small farmers in 21 countries, most of them in Africa, to grow food for the U.N.'s World Food Program, the biggest food aid distributor in Africa. Rather than simply buying the farmers' crops outright, much of the money will go to teaching better farming methods, and to helping them store their crops in warehouses, plant higher-yield seeds, and transport their produce to customers. Those are all serious obstacles for poor farmers, many of whom find it almost impossible...
Schwartz, significantly, is the first non-fighter pilot to head the Air Force in a generation (he is a pilot, but primarily of special-operations aircraft). To meet the soaring demand for drone operators, he says fledgling pilots will be used. But the service soon will "develop an unmanned aircraft systems operator career field with specialized training potentially distinct from current manned pilot training," he said. That will come as a relief to many young pilots who have feared having their flying careers crimped by being ordered to fly drones from Nevada's Creech Air Force Base. Schwartz said...