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...first discovered Max in the early '90s at the beginning of my career and was instantly a fan. He was a tireless campaigner for the inclusion and recognition of architects from the African diaspora. He was a great collaborator, able to hear and work with other voices and to push them toward realizing their goals...
...pugnacious studio boss has been a tireless evangelist for 3-D, which he believes is the next big thing for Hollywood. The way he sees it, cinematic storytelling has undergone two sweeping technological changes thus far: the advent of talkies was the first, followed by the transition from black-and-white to color. He and other Hollywood luminaries, including James Cameron (who's currently making Avatar, a live-action 3-D movie), believe that 3-D, when done properly, isn't a zany retro gimmick but a narrative tool to pull movie watchers even deeper into the film - just like...
...Just talking about ourselves the way we talk about animals is a step toward self-knowledge. "We Homo sapiens," Holmes writes, "so eager to describe the rest of the world, have been chary about committing our own species to paper." Holmes describes us quite wonderfully, and she's a tireless compiler of biological trivia. She scours the extremes of the earth for anomalous and specially adapted humans, like the Tierra del Fuegians, who (before they died out) wore no more than a loose animal skin even in sleet and snow, and the Yana Indians of California, whose men and women...
...While others pointed to Jantzen’s tireless work ethic, the sophomore also credited improvements in his mental outlook...
...source of all the largesse. Sadako Ogata, the former U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees, now oversees the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which, after a massive reorganization this year, has become the world's largest bilateral development agency, with more than $10 billion at its disposal. Up next on the tireless 81-year-old's agenda is publicizing more effectively all the aid work that her homeland conducts abroad. "Japan doesn't go around bragging about what it has done," says Ogata. "But Japan's reticence and modesty has not been very helpful in terms of information about what it does...