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...certain amount of buzz-and Singapore is not currently thought of as an exciting city. Not that it isn't a model in many ways. It's admired for its efficient government, first-world infrastructure, solid educational system-a real plus if it is to attract high-income talent from overseas-and clean, crime-free streets. Singapore is regularly named in regional surveys as one of the best places in Asia for expats to live. Per capita income last year was $30,900, equal to that of Japan, and the economy is popping; GDP grew 7.9% last year...
...steers clear of the art world. "I don't go to scenes," he says. "I don't go to openings.") He's a native of San Francisco, the child of a Spanish-born shipyard worker and a Jewish mother who took an early interest in her son's talent as an artist. "To compete with my older brother for my parents' affections, I would draw all the time as a boy," he says. "After about the third grade, my mother started taking me to museums and introducing me as her son the artist. She also told my older brother...
...know what I mean! You think with all the talent in America we end up with these folks running for president. What is going on! What’s going on is that you need big big money. So another question I want to ask Brother Barack, which is true of all the candidates, we wanna know where your money’s coming from! Is it big white money, black money, red money, Catholic money, Jewish money? Whose running your campaign at the financial level...
...Most Hollywood movies can go from script to screen in under a year. Making an animated film, he said, "is like a transatlantic submarine journey," with lengthy stages of writing, recording the voice talent and the nearly endless stages of creating the images; it's not just PhotoShopping. Even now, less than six months before the Nov. 2 U.S. premiere, some of the sequences were not finished. But the script is there, and it's very Jerry...
...Nobody knows exactly how Paravicini does what he does. One theory is that his talent developed because of his limitations, not despite them. "People with learning disabilities like Derek's have a strong drive to systemize, to look for patterns," says Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge University. "Music is a system, the intervals between notes and the relationship between keys are quantitative. Even when you improvise you are, in a sense, following the rules. And because he's blind, a lot more of his brain may be allocated to auditory information...