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16th April 2002

Inside the Mind of a Maestro

“He has been a child actor, a teacher, an author, and a marathon runner. But Mario Garcia is best known as one of the world’s leading newspaper maestros, a designer whose hand has helped shape more than 450 papers around the world. One of the biggest of those redesigns will be unveiled Tuesday, as presses around the nation begin turning with the highly anticipated makeover of The Wall Street Journal.”

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16th April 2002

Harness the Psychological Power of ‘3′ and Improve Communication

“Two might be company in life, but in communication you can go all the way to three and still have a rollicking party. If you step over to four however, it’s quite likely that you’ve stepped into the harakiri zone. Back up that truck a bit and learn how the limit of ‘3′ has the ability to make your communication soar.”

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16th April 2002

Inside the Mind of a Maestro

“He has been a child actor, a teacher, an author, and a marathon runner. But Mario Garcia is best known as one of the world’s leading newspaper maestros, a designer whose hand has helped shape more than 450 papers around the world. One of the biggest of those redesigns will be unveiled Tuesday, as presses around the nation begin turning with the highly anticipated makeover of The Wall Street Journal.”

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16th April 2002

Charting the Virtual World

“Cyberspace is the latest frontier to attract the attention of mapmakers. Why is it so important for us to know what the Web looks like? …No one has come up with a killer map of cyberspace yet, says Martin Dodge, coauthor (with Rob Kitchen) of The Atlas of Cyberspace, which collects hundreds of maps of the virtual world…”

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16th April 2002

The Covers Project

“We’re building a database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer) with the intention of creating cover “chains.” A cover chain is a set of songs in which each song is a cover of a song by the band who covered the preceding song. For instance…”

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16th April 2002

Inside the Mind of a Maestro

“He has been a child actor, a teacher, an author, and a marathon runner. But Mario Garcia is best known as one of the world’s leading newspaper maestros, a designer whose hand has helped shape more than 450 papers around the world. One of the biggest of those redesigns will be unveiled Tuesday, as presses around the nation begin turning with the highly anticipated makeover of The Wall Street Journal.”

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