However, as I’ve argued in The Freak Factor, it seems that dyslexia is a two-edged sword. The obvious weaknesses and problems are complemented by important strengths. Having dyslexia may be a gift, instead of a curse. For example, experts suggest that people with dyslexia are often better than most at being “creative and looking at the bigger picture“ and this can make them better strategic thinkers. Dan Pink, author of , believes that some of these advantages might result from a greater ability to use the right side of the brain.
Feb. 18 Auto racing star Dale Earnhardt dies from injuries suffered in crash at Daytona 500. Veteran FBI agent Robert Hanssen arrested, accused of spying for Russia for more than 15 years. Feb. 20 Filmmaker Stanley Kramer dies at age 87. Feb. 23 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld orders indefinite moratorium on civilian visitors operating military equipment, a factor in submarine collision with Japanese fishing boat.
Now, with the proliferation of cheap, powerful computers and the rapid growth of the Internet, there’s new interest in all kinds of “intelligent“ machinery–not just chess-playing supercomputers or grandiose AI research projects like CYC and Cog. The past few years have seen a burst of entrepreneurial activity in what are called intelligent agents–programs of rather more modest IQ that are nonetheless smart enough to be released on the Internet to do small ray ban 3269, useful chores like tracking stock prices or digging for nuggets of research data.
Anyway, the point of all that is this face project is Mrs. G’s equivalent to standing naked in front of a mirror. It’s uncomfortable, Mrs. G. seriously did not feel like doing it this week, but she’s sticking with it because at 45, it’s time she learned to like her face, scars, blemishes ray ban, shadows, chubby cheeks, extra chin(s) and all. She is determined there will be plenty of pictures of her in the old smelly, vintage suitcase where the family’s treasured photos are stashed. She wants to be drug out with the suitcase on Thanksgivings long after she’s gone and counted as having been here, really been here.
Carbide, which had spent years in the Eighties cutting out whole divisions to pay down the vast debt incurred from fighting off a takeover bid in the wake of the Bhopal tragedy, decided in 1990 to try to shave costs by $400 million. To do that, management devised an exercise it called work process improvement, which it discovered only later — like Moliere’s character who was thrilled to learn he’d been speaking prose all his life — was what other companies called reengineering. So close was the target when the reengineering was only partly done that management saw no sweat in raising the hurdle to $575 million. But cutting and reengineering were always only part of the plan.