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...build leadership, sociability, flexibility, resilience - even as a means of literally shaping the brain and its pathways. Dr. Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist and the founder of the National Institute for Play - who has a treehouse above his office - recalls in a recent book how managers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noticed the younger engineers lacked problem-solving skills, though they had top grades and test scores. Realizing the older engineers had more play experience as kids - they'd taken apart clocks, built stereos, made models - JPL eventually incorporated questions about job applicants' play backgrounds into interviews...
...cricket and rugby - its "All Blacks" team is a perennial powerhouse in the latter - it has had far less success in soccer. The New Zealand team traveling to South Africa may feel uncomfortable not just because they're known as the "All Whites." In a tournament filled with millionaire, jet-setting athletes, the bulk of the Kiwi squad is made up of journeymen who toil in obscurity in lower-tier leagues in Europe and others who until recently were playing semi-professionally at home. A tied match, let alone one victory in South Africa, would be cause for celebration. (Read...
...felt that the title didn't give credit to his fellow researchers. Indeed, while the Chinese-born, U.S.-educated rocket scientist was technically brilliant, he also realized that legions of bright thinkers can do far more than one genius ever could. A co-founder of what became Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Qian helped debrief German rocket scientists following World War II, but he was accused of being a Communist spy at the height of the McCarthy era and put under house arrest. He and his family returned to China in exchange for U.S. pilots captured during the Korean...
...graduating class of the country's Academy of Fine Arts fashion school feel utterly liberated about entering the job market after the crash. "Before it was 'What are you thinking going into design?' " says Rakel Solros as she put the finishing touches on her homework for the week - a jet black evening dress. "It may be harder to get the loan now, but everyone is prepared to do much more and make something real happen...
...Olympics started in Morgedal, Norway, the birthplace of skiing pioneer Sondre Norheim. That relay also featured the torch's first trip in an airplane. (For the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, the torch got an upgrade, flying from Athens to Paris on the famed Concorde jet.) The relay was first televised in 1960, when CBS broadcast part of the route to Rome...