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...idea is to partner with state departments of transportation or highway patrols to use the technology, Farrar says, because they could control the feedback, determining how often they want a reading of the sensors - once a minute, once a month, once a year. The sensors could eventually replace the jobs of inspectors altogether. Farrar argues that it would be more cost-effective in the long run because states could focus on sending a repair crew only when they already know there's a problem (and exactly where and what it is). "It would lead to much more continuous monitoring...
...characters are as admirably cast. His would-be love interest, Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick, in a marvelous breakthrough performance), is the preppy perfectionist of the school debate team, whose ice-cold ambition drives her to do whatever is necessary to win. She convinces Hal to become her debate partner, and he jumps in headfirst, hoping to master love and public debate in the same sitting. Aaron Yoo nearly steals the movie as Hal’s curiously surreal friend Heston, who casts a strange otherworldliness that would put E.T. to shame. Despite his limited screen time, Yoo delivers some...
...slashed his living expenses to buy some cameras and travel the world to shoot pictures of children in common settings: a first haircut, a lost tooth. A former museum director, Steckel hoped to show that all people share the same basic life experiences. He and his wife Michele, his partner in the Milestones Project in Littleton, Colo., say they have found their purpose. "People thought we were out of our minds," says Steckel. "I guess we live with a different checklist of values...
...long career as a retail executive ended when he lost his job in a merger, Lehman invested a quarter of his $1 million nest egg in his new venture. His business did fine, growing to six stores in six years. Then, he says, a nasty falling out with his partner forced them to sell at a loss. "Damn right, it hurt," says Lehman, who lost $150,000. "But I didn't risk so much that we couldn't eat. All my life I wanted to own my own stores. Yes, it was worth...
...into the brains of the Chinese and have been evident in the plays in Barclays and Blackstone. Rather than trying to swallow big, high-profile Western firms in one bite, the Chinese are taking smaller, strategic stakes and working, in the case of the Barclays deal, with another prominent partner, Temasek...