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Although Disney is buying Pixar's talents in digital animation, including proprietary software, the key asset is more prosaic: Pixar's superior skill at telling stories. "We won't let anything get ahead of the quality of the story," Pixar president Ed Catmull told TIME. "It's meant we have not increased production at the rate we have wanted...
...distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as though everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless e-mails, phone calls and other things, a lot more could be achieved. ALLY WHITNEY Eugene...
...It’s a completely different lifestyle—I was living in a cabin on a mountain,” she says. Rather than mastering key commands in Excel and taking midday Starbucks breaks, Kleinschmidt quickly began to exercise a new skill set. Her workday included cleaning up the trail, digging, water drainage, and moving rocks around...
...pursuit—outdoor education—is a far throw from the more secure trajectories upon which most Harvard graduates embark. Forgoing creature comforts and even modest financial security, she has instead opted for an off-road foray into the wilderness, where she hopes to hone an unconventional skill set before settling upon a more permanent route...
...worry when dollars are limited,” she said.But Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Virginie Greene said that she worries the program will restrain educational priorities, too.“By linking so closely higher education to national security and to ‘high-paying, high-skill jobs that drive the 21st century economy’ (Frist quoted in the Chatanooga.com, 18 Dec. 2005), Senator Frist limits considerably the scope and purpose of higher education,” Greene wrote in an e-mail.Nevertheless, Greene said she does not foresee a threat to the academic security of particular...