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...competitions. A modest and laconic man, he played merely supporting roles for most of his career. As a stills photographer for movie companies in the 1960s, he was one of thousands of anonymous technicians in the service of a burgeoning entertainment industry. As the publisher and editor of Photo Tech magazine in the 1970s, and of Photo Art magazine from 1980, his days were spent deciding how best to present the work of other, usually less able, photographers. He didn't seriously think of promoting his own name and work until Photo Art ceased publication in the early 1990s, costing...
...many products, including toys and children's jewelry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) sets standards for safety but does not require companies to do testing and doesn't test the toys itself. "No one's asking for proof," says Sue DeRagon, associate director for toys at Specialized Tech Resources, a testing lab in Enfield, Conn...
...time that a team spends building trust and a collegial spirit, they find, would be better spent scouting for outside sources of new ideas, generating enthusiasm for what the team is doing among upper managers and communicating with everyone the group's work touches, from customers to tech support...
...some success attaching artificial beaks to birds that veterinarians suspect were mutilated by fishermen who didn't want the animals competing for their catch. Dogs and cats with disabled hind legs are often strapped into little carts that let them get around using just their forelimbs. But those low-tech fixes had been more or less as far as it went...
...steered the leadership away from the GOP's roots in recent years. New Hampshire recently voted - without too much drama - to allow gay civil unions. It's also one of the most liberal states on abortion issues, perhaps a reflection of its libertarian heritage, and has a growing high-tech economy that has brought in more moderate or liberal-leaning voters from neighboring states like Massachusetts. "One of the reasons that you're not seeing conservative candidates doing well in our polling is that there's no one here to talk to," said Andy Smith, director of the University...