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...photographer's aesthetic instincts may have been formed by Russian avant-garde revolutionary art of the 1920s - the paintings of Rodchenko and films of Vertov and Eisenstein. "Remarkable," says Volland, "how even in the most harrowing circumstances, with death, suffering and danger all around him, he could still tend to the composition...
...veritable Walt Disney of video games, Miyamoto can afford to upset the creative balance. He admits that devising Fit was a lot less fun than playing it. "There tends to be a lot of nervousness about working on a product like this. Video games have a lot of expectations, and developers tend to have stress to meet those," he told me. Miyamoto draws from his personal life to create new games. His love of dogs led to the virtual-pet title Nintendogs, and his gardening hobby grew into the carrot-shaped Pikmin in the eponymous GameCube...
...light up if your close friends do. But Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler at University of California San Diego report that quitting smoking may be contagious as well. Even people who don't necessarily know each other, but are connected in some distant way, tend to stop smoking at the same time. "People tend to quit smoking in droves, and this coordinated quitting is literally like a flock of birds changing direction," says Christakis. "So smoking is not an individual behavior, but rather a collective process...
...wider business world the burgeoning opportunity is seen as investment in renewable energy, for which massive government subsidies are available. The front runners tend to be biofuels for transport and wind power for electricity generation. The E.U. is still committed to increasing the use of biofuels, but it has belatedly been recognized that large-scale production of crops for fuel rather than for food is a major cause of the surge in food prices that is causing severe hardship in much of the developing world. Moreover, approximately as much carbon-based energy is used in the production of most biofuels...
Americans tend to think of the presidency as all-powerful, but much of its authority comes from the ability to convince the public to follow, and the same is sometimes true in diplomacy. The time when George W. Bush could perform that trick has long passed. But if Americans are adjusting to the idea of a weak Bush, an even tougher mental leap awaits them once he leaves office: accepting that the U.S. isn't the force abroad it was just a few years ago. The next President's hardest job may be getting the country used to that...