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When children see Robert Torres at restaurants, "I'll make eye contact and wave," says the Santa from Lake Forest, Calif. "They'll hide behind the booth, and it becomes a game." Torres was spotted by kids when visiting a small village in Mexico with no electricity. The kids, Huichol Indians, yelled "Santa!" then followed him, giggling, as if he had been the Pied Piper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Real Santas | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Looking like Santa demands a certain demeanor even when not dandling kids on one's knee. "If someone cuts you off on the freeway, all you can do is smile and wave," says Connaghan, who has played Santa in the Hollywood Christmas Parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Real Santas | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Poss has made a career of renewable-energy engineering. He has created a wave-powered generator, various hybrid engines and has worked in solar. In 2003 he started Seahorse Power, which makes BigBelly, using start-up funds from his Babson College M.B.A. program. "Any business effort I made had to have good consequences for the environment," Poss says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM POSS: Bringing Sunshine to Trash | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...which thousands of “gold farmers” are paid to sit at computers all day and obtain valuable items in online games for resale to first-world clients. Against this backdrop, such incidents look less like the actions of obsessed nerds, and more like the advance wave of an emerging society in which virtual realities are worth killing...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PAYNEFUL TRUTHS: Occupational Hazard: Wii Will Kill Us All | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...discovered that films were not only entertainment but also thinking.” “Film can think in a way: it lets us think and it brings us to thinking,” he continued. He also paid homage to his predecessors in the French New Wave. “When I saw Godard’s first film, I understand that films were not only stories or dreams,” he said. “Films help us to think, to understand the world, to discover the rest of the world, to hear other languages...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Philibert Talks Film, Frenchly | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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