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The Portrait Artist

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Perry wrote her first article for Spectrum in 1980. Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. That rapport lets her subjects open up, giving readers a glimpse of their personalities, motivations, and attitudes. There’s an art to writing a good profile, and it all starts with the interview.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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The Grand Tour's "Eurocrash," 45 Percent of a Car Show

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& Before you read any further, be advised this article contains spoilers for the episode. It’s decided the trip will start in Gdansk, Poland, and end some 1,400 miles away at Lake Bled in Slovenia. & Within a couple of minutes, the journey pauses at a race track in Poland where some Formula Easter cars are gathered.

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Standards Certification Testing: Bringing Order to the Internet of Things

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Comarch. Comarch —the $500-million IT company with headquarters in Krakow, Poland, and offices in 100 countries—is playing a leading role in developing automated standards certification systems. Without them, there is only noise.

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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ACCOLADES APLENTY Gelenbe has been elected Fellow of the French National Academy of Technologies , the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters , and the science academies of Hungary , Poland , and Turkey. I would certainly recommend membership to anyone with a career in our fields, whether the person is an academic or not.”.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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With the conclusion of the 14 th Congress in Poznań, Poland a year later and little progress made, member delegates, some of who had been showing signs of pessimism and fatigue in their statements to the press, were left with just four second-level meetings at which to resolve major outstanding differences.

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