Word: powerpoint
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...movie offers few clues. It is, essentially, a two-hour PowerPoint presentation, enlivened - if that's the right word - by periodic shots of Al Gore staring pensively out of plane windows, Al Gore frowning contemplatively at computer screens, and Al Gore pacing thoughtfully through airport terminals. The man could make playing a kazoo look like meditation. The movie is about the threat of global warming, and it is full of dire predictions and horrifying scenarios for the Earth's future should we not change our fossil-fuel-guzzling ways. Rising sea levels, hordes of refugees, parching draughts: Call...
...chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee until 2003. "And then he pauses as if to give the listener a chance to assimilate what he has just said." It is clear when Hayden goes to Capitol Hill that he has studied his audience carefully. "He's a great PowerPoint briefer, and he speaks at their level," says a congressional intelligence staffer who has seen the general in action with lawmakers. "He has that wonderful quality of being quite likable and unpretentious. And he would work those members assiduously." In fact, he was credited with so effectively defending the National Security Agency...
...Hayden, a polished congressional witness and acknowledged PowerPoint ninja whose high-level briefing skills are perhaps second to none in Washington, is all but certain to face questions on several fronts...
...presentation to the task force last night. “I think every time has its challenges and every time has its answers. There is a right time for brick and masonry and there is a right time for glass.” Last night’s powerpoint drew on the materials Behnisch presented during a competition with 75 other firms for Harvard’s contract, and Behnisch stressed that it “is not, will not be, the final design.” He has not yet submitted any formal blueprints for the science centers...
...good at finding and manipulating information. And presumably because modern childhood tilts toward visual rather than print media, they are especially skilled at analyzing visual data and images, observes Claudia Koonz, professor of history at Duke University. A growing number of college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention. It's a powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow and hear his voice as he walked with...