By focussing on those who drive discovery and innovation, and on their motivations and life histories, the magazine has sought to show how technological progress proceeds not from some faceless process, but from the work of distinctive, memorable people.
Over the past couple of years a group from business and society have been working on a distinctive approach to this.
The architects are working on a distinctive silver or white structural wrap for the spire that would enclose the television antenna with fiberglass or carbon, substances that would not interfere with emanating radio waves.
Every good book has its personality, there in the way its sentences and paragraphs work on the page, distinctive as a face or a body language and just as difficult to characterise.
Still, I think the case of his work on gay marriage is distinctive.
Their distinctive work on the Manchester production left a vivid impression on audiences, who were warned that they might get dirty during a show with rain effects that turned the stage's dirt floor into mud, and a kinetic opening fight scene depicting a battle that occurs offstage in Shakespeare's text.
The rebuilding is scheduled to be completed in March; the Stones will play on March 22. Mick Taylor, a guitarist in the band from 1969 to 1974 — you can hear his most distinctive work on "Sticky Fingers," "Exile on Main Street" and "It's Only Rock and Roll" — will be a guest of the band at the show, as he was for several of the British and American shows this year.
Often regarded as the heart of the E Street Band's sound, Danny Federici's distinctive work on organ, accordion and glockenspiel in classic E Street songs such as "Sandy," "Hungry Heart," "Racing in the Street," "independence Day," "Fade Away" and on the most recent album, Magic, "Living in the Future" makes him an eternal presence in Springsteen's music in particular and rock & roll in general.
For example, Fisker borrowed 15 to 20 engineers from lighting supplier Valeo for eight months to work on the Karma's distinctive bi-xenon headlights.
The pair were happy working on creating a distinctive groove rather than a collection of chart-friendly pop hits.
