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...expertise in both areas will be invaluable as we work together to shape the direction of the Institute and to implement its mission,” she said...
...months with their subjects, studying body language and probing decision making about everything from beer to cell phones. The hours of footage are compressed into a 30-to-40-min. narrated documentary. Then Gilding brings in specialists in fields like psychology to pick apart the video and ultimately help shape a client's ad campaign...
...handful of local kids whose parents are out running errands. "Finger painting with chocolate pudding is pretty easy if you just dive right in, see?" she says chirpily, before unloading a Jell-O container onto the white paper in front of her and digging in. As her creation takes shape, Andrew Boatright, 3, is quiet, wide-eyed, awed. Soon his primitive portraits cover the table, and many dollops of brown glop adorn his newly animated face...
...Even if technology took off again in the U.S., lack of reform is likely to keep growth rates in much of Asia slow for a long time. How long could depend on the one country in the neighborhood that is not in bad shape: China. The forecasts for China's future are a bit like harried traffic cops on Shanghai's streets pointing in two directions at the same time. The nation is not nearly as vulnerable to export slumps because its own consumers are spending like mad on everything from cars to vacations at Angkor Wat. That could well...
...Pretty scary stuff. Privatization opponents complain it's scarier than what will actually happen. The report, they charge, is riddled with errors to frighten people into Bush's privatization plan. "It recycles old alarmist arguments that portray the financial shape of Social Security in the worst possible light," says William D. Novelli, executive director of the AARP. Social Security will need fixing, but it is far from being on the brink of financial collapse, argue critics of the commission. The panel's report tries "to convince younger Americans" that Social Security is "falling apart and that a radical solution...