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...recognition for their single “Wild Mountain Nation” from their third album of the same name. After signing last summer with Sub Pop Records, Trapper seems right at home with their record label, as their fourth album “Furr” showcases their talent well.Influenced heavily by nature and their own spirituality, Trapper creates interesting tunes through light guitar chords and multiple keyboards, offering a sound reminiscent of Neil Young with a dash of Bob Dylan. Their album kicks off with “Sleepytime in the Western World,” a song...
...When exactly did Jonathan Demme lose his sense of humor? Back in the '70s and '80s he was the best - or at any rate the most promising - young American director. He had a taste for American eccentrics, for the vagaries of life on the American road, and a talent that extended beyond fictional features to concert films and documentaries. In their day, Citizen's Band, Melvin and Howard, Something Wild and Married to the Mob had about them a sort of humane nuttiness, an ability to catch the fun and shrewdness of ordinary, if hard-pressed, folks without ever patronizing...
...innovate is palpable across the world's fifth largest pharmaceutical firm. In core research areas, scientists are mining new sources for inspiration, be it China or genetic engineering. At the same time, Roche's bosses, from their base in Basel, continue to lead the pack in acquiring expertise, a talent recently seen in the company's bid to control biotech superstar Genentech. Together, the two strategies form the nucleus of how Roche plans to deliver best-in-class products--faster, more cheaply and more reliably--to market. "The days of an attrition-based pipeline are over," says Lee Babiss, head...
...Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else By Geoff Colvin Portfolio; 228 pages...
...Carnegie Hall? goes the old joke: Practice, practice, practice. The author, a FORTUNE editor and columnist, is not a big believer in innate talent. "Great performance is in our hands far more than most of us ever suspected," he writes in this provocative book. But ordinary practice isn't enough for extraordinary results. Colvin is a believer in "deliberate practice," highly mentally demanding activity designed to improve performance, which should be repeated a lot--with feedback. Oh, yeah, says Colvin, "It isn't much fun." But it delivers...