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...fact, the real triumph of Panic is that the band never lets its technical mastery get in the way of the album's prettiness. The adept rhythm section keeps things mostly understated. The instrumentation gives the album a full sound, but not one that's over the top. And, perhaps most important of all, Young and Sexy don't drag out a song longer than two minutes if it's not necessary. The result is an album that sounds unified and pleasant, but that you could still offer to your piano teacher as proof that not all pop musicians...
What's intriguing is that this slightly goofy, self-indulgent culture has proved so adept at nuts-and-bolts business. Schmidt says he intentionally propagated the perception of Google as a wacky place to allow the company to build up its business under the radar. "With the lava lamps and scooters, everybody thought we were idiots, the last vestiges of the dotcoms," he says. "It worked until it leaked out how well we were doing." Many details didn't become known until Google had to file its financials just before going public...
...think he is one of those rare people who can combine the world of theory with the messy world of politics, and he’s equally adept at both,” Rodrik said. “I think our loss in this case is a great gain for Chile...
Part of the problem is we are so used to being chronically sleep deprived--and have become so adept at coping with that condition--that we no longer notice how exhausted we really are. In 2003, sleep expert David Dinges and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine tested the effects of restricting slumber to eight, six or four hours a night for two weeks. During the first few days, subjects sleeping less than eight hours admitted to being fatigued and lacking alertness. But by Day 4, most people had adapted to their new baseline drowsiness and reported...
...remaining in the first half, had just eight team fouls in the game. I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS While much of the attention has been focused on Stehle and Cusworth early in the season, their teammates have also proven to be adept at putting the biscuit in the basket. This was especially evident in the game against New Hampshire, in which six Crimson players tallied at least nine points. Cusworth and Goffredo led the way with 15 points apiece, Beal had 12, and Stehle, freshman guard Drew Housman, and Martin each had nine...