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Another freshman making a splash was Lu Haibo, who came through the 100 meter run in 2:39.00, good enough for sixth...
...goes global, other countries are also attracting attention, most notably China. Of the more than 200 foreign companies with research facilities in China, a handful are doing substantive research. About a month before Microsoft made a splash with plans to expand its 170-person Beijing research center by 20%, France Telecom announced last June that it would open an R.-and-D. facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large...
...goes global, other countries are also attracting attention, most notably China. Of the more than 200 foreign companies with research facilities in China, a handful are doing substantive research. About a month before Microsoft made a splash with plans to expand its 170-person Beijing research center by 20%, France Telecom announced last June that it would open an R&D facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large pool...
...fact, Gladwell throws so many anecdotes at us in Blink, from so many directions, that sometimes it's a little hard to be certain what they prove. Sure, producer Brian Grazer knew right away that Tom Hanks had star potential when he auditioned for Splash. But is that kind of judgment really analogous to the split-second decision-making process of a Marine in a war game? Or of the New York City policemen who decided, incorrectly, that immigrant Amadou Diallo was holding a gun and not his wallet...
...debris (ranging from sand to nails and cigarette butts) that he often embedded in the surfaces of his paintings. These material qualities, together with the fact that he worked on the floor rather than an easel and didn’t so much paint per se as splash paint down onto the canvas, letting gravity do most of the work for him, suggest a reading of Pollock’s work as a kind of debasement of painting itself. And according to some scholars, this material quality is one of the most art-historically significant qualities of his work...