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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many users, efforts to reach technical support added yet another layer of frustration. Representatives for AT&T, the sole wireless carrier for the new device, referred most technical questions to Apple. An AT&T technician informed TIME only of the obvious predicament - that Apple was "experiencing some challenges due to the launch of the new iPhone" - and was unable to resolve problems accessing the Apple App store, downloading applications, or setting up AOL and Yahoo email accounts on the device. Apple's own support lines were so jammed that we were unable to get through until late Friday evening. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Bungles its iPhone 3G Launch | 7/12/2008 | See Source »

...remarks about his vocation, Winston always emphasized the artistic impulse over the tinkerer's gift. "I am not a technician," he said. "I am techno-ignorant." (Here, he must have been kidding to make a point, since he was in charge of the Stan Winston Studio, which constructed these elaborate, often revolutionary mechanisms in addition to devising them.) "But I love creating characters and telling wonderful stories." Another hint to Winston's humanity: his insistence on paying at least as much attention to his family as to his job. He leaves behind his wife Karen, their two children and four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...final moments of the descent is like riding the bench during a baseball no-hitter: no one wants to jinx the outcome, so no one says a word. "Seven minutes of terror" is how Smith described the communications blackout as the spacecraft passed through the Martian atmosphere. One flight technician fidgeted with his pen. A few others rocked back and forth in their chairs, tension lines webbing their faces. Then came a simple radio burst, indicating Phoenix had reached its destination. Said Michael Wright, who helped design Phoenix's protective heat shield: "Once I heard that ping, everything was okay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Probe Breaks the Ice on Mars, Literally | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

He’s been called director, actor, and producer, but those in the theater community know him best as technician, carpenter, set builder and light designer. Basically, if you need a free-standing, removable 15x4 plank of wood on the set of your play, David S. Jewett ’08—one of this year’s recipients of the Louise Donovan Award—is the person to call. A Minneapolis native, Jewett has always had an interest in theater but only got involved in set construction after coming to Harvard...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: David S. Jewett '08 | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard. The summer after her freshman year, Kargman worked with the Atlantic Theater Company in New York, a group founded by David Mamet and William H. Macy. After learning their technique of Practical Aesthetics, Kargman petitioned to create a Harvard course on the subject taught by expert Practical Aesthetics technician and ART instructor Scott Zigler. The course began this fall, after two years of work from Kargman.The summer after her sophomore year, Kargman participated in the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival, where she discovered and, for the first time, performed a reading of the work “Manuscript...

Author: By Mollie K Wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sophie C. Kargman ’08 | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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