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...destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting?as do the parents who allow their children to color the snow yellow instead of making use of a nearby bathroom. "Skiing is a little more basic in China, because there are some visitors who have never even seen snow before," admits Ma Zhe, a ski instructor who only started skiing three years ago. "We still have a lot to learn, but we'll catch up with other countries soon...
...Naturally, at these prices you'll have to jettison some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent facelift. The solution is to lie back and think of the bragging potential?your friends may have done chakra balancing in Bhutan, or chromotherapy in Bali, but Kyrgyzstan...
...that's changing. The authorship of innovation is shifting from the Few to the Many. Take as an example something called the open-source movement. The basic idea is that while most software is produced by the aforementioned People in the Room, open-source software is offered to the entire world as a collaborative project. Somebody posts a piece of software on the Internet and then throws the joint wide open. It's like American Idol for software. In the open-source model, innovation comes from hundreds of thousands of people, not just a handful of engineers...
...basic principle of the new model is to get the driver farther away from points of impact. So engineers have made it wider and and taller, creating what the drivers call a bigger greenhouse. That could be important when the car, say, rolls onto its roof. The driver's seat has been moved 4 in. to the center, which is supposed to achieve two things: it lets NASCAR reinforce the driver's side with energy-absorbing, staggered steel plates and gives the driver more comfort. Over the years, as NASCAR began adding such safety devices as the HANS head...
...destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting-as do the parents who allow their children to color the snow yellow instead of making use of a nearby bathroom. "Skiing is a little more basic in China, because there are some visitors who have never even seen snow before," admits Ma Zhe, a ski instructor who only started skiing three years ago. "We still have a lot to learn, but we'll catch up with other countries soon...