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...reason for the domestic shakeup, analysts say, is to revive GM's North American market, considered the heart of any GM recovery. Driving home that point, Reuss brought back experts from GM operations in Australia and Thailand to work on North American sales and marketing initiatives. "We needed expertise," explained Reuss, whose latest re-organization also sent Bryan Nesbitt, who had been general manager of the Cadillac Division since last fall back to GM's design staff where he will be in charge of GM's advance design studio. "Bryan's very talented. We need his expertise in design," said...
Until recently, however, marine scientists dismissed the idea of rogue waves as little more than a sailors' fantasy, with reason - there was little evidence to back it up. But in 1995, an oil rig in the North Sea recorded an 84-ft.-high (25.6 m) wave that appeared out of nowhere, and in 2000, a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 95-ft.-high (29 m) wave off the coast of Scotland. In 2004, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), as part of the MaxWave project, used satellite data to show that freak waves higher than 10 stories were rare...
...There are a couple guys in my office who summarize and update me on what’s going on. The reason for that is, as an artist, you can be susceptible to the slings and arrows of critics. In our view, people on blogs represent a particular subset of the show. They’re focused on the mythology of the show, whereas when we do the show we’re about 90 percent focused on character and 10 percent on mythology. It’s easy to get a skewed perception of the show based on these...
...It’s a fun business. There are parties and festivals and things like that. People dress up, and if people consider that glamorous, then I guess it is. But there is a reason why people call it production—it’s a manufacturing industry ,and it’s very labor-intensive. I’ve done many different professions, and direction and producing a film is by far the hardest thing that you can do. It’s all-consuming, and that part isn’t glamorous. But when it does come...
...with good reason. General Khan reckons that the Pakistani Taliban have killed over 500 tribal elders since 9/11 for supposedly collaborating with Islamabad and Washington. Even after assurances from the army chief, the Mehsud elders are still afraid to venture back to their lands. "The jihad has eliminated the old tribal system of maliks," says General Khan. "Now any crook with a cell phone can call up a gang of his militant friends for any kind of mischief, and everyone is too afraid to stop them." His former colleague, Brigadier Mahmoud Shah, formerly in charge of security for the Northwest...