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Participating in a study actually involves a considerable amount of tolerance and perseverance. Gerald A. Jayne, chief research technician at the laboratory, estimates that the lab receives about 200 phone calls per week from people interested in becoming subjects. "Around 90 percent of people, after hearing what's involved, don't want to do it," he says...
...nightmare with a happy ending; a Rorschach drawing in fingerpaint--these are definitions of a Disney cartoon. Toy Story, though released by Disney, was not exactly generated by it. In the mid-'80s, Lasseter, a Disney alumnus, joined the Marin County computer lab Pixar and made three terrific shorts (Luxo Jr., Red's Dream and Tin Toy) in which he invested metal objects such as lamps, unicycles and drummer-boy toys with life and heart. These films, forerunners to Toy Story, ingeniously show that things have wills and wits of their own and exist in intimate relation to their human...
Ptashne got his start in research as a high school student working in a neurology lab for a family friend, during which he published two papers on the anti seizual effects of dilantin, a drug commonly used to treat patients with epilepsy...
...Reed. Ptashne says he loved with the idea of medical school and changed his major to philosophy, but ultimately decided to become a scientist after working in a fruit fly genetics lab...
...casual observer might call the costumes sexy, but Prada calls them "uniforms," for work, shopping, kiddie coping, socializing--the service roles of a woman's life. There are tops that clearly resemble lab coats, but if these are uniforms, they are very lighthearted ones...