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Chirac: Because there are many variables we can work on, I am sure that we will find the necessary policies to return to a more or less normal situation. There is the length of the workday or workweek, for example, and new kinds of jobs. Half the professions that will exist 10 years from now are not even known today...
From the start, abstract filmmakers sought to use light as a tool for communication without words. Color, movement, rhythm and music make up the vocabulary of these films. Though they range in length from seconds to 30 minutes, the majority of the films last five or six minutes, the perfect length for the unfolding of one chain of thought...
...most notable elements of the commons are a lighted message board which runs the length of the commons and an electronic billboard on the back wall...
...that seemed impossibly short. Then two years ago, a group of researchers led by Grotzinger, Samuel Bowring from M.I.T. and Harvard's Knoll took this long-standing problem and escalated it into a crisis. First they recalibrated the geological clock, chopping the Cambrian period to about half its former length. Then they announced that the interval of major evolutionary innovation did not span the entire 30 million years, but rather was concentrated in the first third. "Fast," Harvard's Gould observes, "is now a lot faster than we thought, and that's extraordinarily interesting." (Watch TIME's video "Darwin...
CHARACTERS IN SO MANY LIVE-action movies these days are little more than cartoons. So where to turn for original characters with all-too-human weaknesses? Cartoons, of course. Consider the new Disney animated feature, John Lasseter's Toy Story, which is, incidentally, the first full-length film created wholly by computer and, not at all incidentally--by design, in fact--the year's most inventive comedy...