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Lane, who was trained as a physicist, says that Summers has a talent for explaining how the complex ideas of science can have real-world benefits. For example, Lane says Summers likes to explain how the idea of the square root of negative one, i--a so-called imaginary number--has had a tremendous effect on technology. i represents a point in the two-dimensional plane, and such two-dimensional numbers are used extensively in engineering and physics. Lane says Summers uses i as an example of how theoretical understanding can lead to practical benefits...
DesRochers emphasized, however, that the program was also about familiarizing future entrepreneurs with aspects of real-world businesses besides being a competition. Over the course of four weeks, student participants worked with professional mentors and attended workshops as well as "weekend bootcamps" during which they received lectures on finance, management and other valuable real-world business skills...
Likewise, when we are given facts stripped of their real-world context and replaced with an unverifiable media context, believability—and more importantly, democratic action—becomes nearly impossible. Deep in a discussion of film, Benjamin will note that the pre-recorded movie—as opposed to the live stage performance “permits the audience to take the position of a critic, without experiencing any personal contact with the actor.” More importantly, it allows us to avoid becoming actors ourselves altogether...
...mission is far down the road. After all, the Air Force only now is building Global Hawk drones at $50 million a pop to replace the venerable U-2 spy planes. The new drones, capable of loitering high over hostile terrain for more than a day, should be flying real-world missions by 2010?a full half-century after the Soviet Union shot down Francis Gary Powers...
...mission is far down the road. After all, the Air Force only now is building Global Hawk drones at $50 million a pop to replace the venerable U-2 spy planes. The new drones, capable of loitering high over hostile terrain for more than a day, should be flying real-world missions by 2010--a full half-century after the Soviet Union shot down Francis Gary Powers' U-2. --By Mark Thompson/Washington...