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...that refining the metal, manufacturing the components and delivering them to the consumer would require about 20 kilowatt hours of electricity. So we would have to walk for 10 years just to recover the energy used to make one pair of these things. At best this is an interesting toy; at worst it's another energy-wasting gizmo. The energy crisis is a very important topic. TIME should be more serious in reporting on "promising" solutions. Doug Drumheller, Cedar Crest, New Mexico...
...animation studios, Pixar and DreamWorks, stand above the rest as multibillion-dollar box-office titans and as entertainment delivery systems. But they have distinct, nearly opposite artistic personalities. Pixar (Toy Story, Finding Nemo, WALL-E) is the clear avatar of the Walt Disney style, stressing sympathetic characters and seamless storytelling. DreamWorks (the Shrek trilogy, Shark Tale) updates the dazzle and impudence of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of the '30s, '40s and '50s - a faster pace, lots of sight gags and pop-culture allusions; its movies tend toward anarchy but land in vaudeville. DreamWorks is contemporary, Pixar timeless. Both work...
...images. (He won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery.) Gabor, however, lacked the technology to perfect holograms; double images sometimes appeared at once and were not viewable. In the 1960s, Emmett Leith added lasers to the equation and rendered the first stable holograms - which included a toy train that astounded other scientists when they...
...There have already been indications of what exactly "difficult" might mean. On October 18, some three thousand laid-off migrant workers demonstrated outside the gates of a shuttered toy factory owned by Hong Kong company Smart Union Group (Holdings). The workers were demanding the payment of over $3 million in back wages. With the factory managers apparently having fled to Hong Kong, the Dongguan city government was eventually forced to announce that it would guarantee their payment...
...military songs, evocatively choreographed group movement. In one sequence, soldiers silently pass letters from home to one another, reading and weaving about the stage in a ballet of camaraderie and longing. In another, a soldier recites the history of the regiment while being manhandled by his comrades like a toy soldier--upended, passed around, dressed and undressed in the assorted costumes the regiment has worn through the decades...