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...culprits of Enron and Tyco, WorldCom and Wall Street are now being described as the largest gang of upper-income banditti since the Ponzi, Insull, bank and bucket shop defendants of the early thirties. The recent peak-to-trough decline of nearly 75% in the tech-heavy Nasdaq also happens to represent the steepest decline in a major stock market index since the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 80% between...
...taking advantage of the policy has been overblown, Tremitiere said. “Having known people who this has affected, the risk of people faking it doesn’t even appear on my radar screen,” he said. “Its a drop in the bucket for the University while on the other hand this has hurt real people’s lives...
...Cute. But is this bucket of bolts smart enough to get me a beer? To Masato Hirose, senior chief engineer at the Honda lab, this is not a facetious question. Since 1986, Honda researchers have been trying to build a robot that could balance and walk naturally like a human. With ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), mission accomplished. Now they are moving on to the next epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots. "Imagine a machine that's as versatile as a human...
This new look at the partnership is a fascinating experiment. As Lovett cleans a lonely table after failing to gain Todd’s devotion, we feel the twinge of pain behind every clink of every plate she dumps in her bucket. Though Knapp makes Lovett mesmerizing, the character cannot break out of the text’s relatively static mold and carry the play...
...Perimeter of a Square, a 10-minute film wherein Bruce Nauman really does just walk along a taped-out square in his studio. Another offering is David Hammons’ Phat Free. The film is of the artist walking through the streets of New York kicking a metal bucket. The camera is very shaky and the lighting has a jaundiced quality to it. The clanging of the bucket is presented in surround sound, and it is much more exciting than The Scorpion King...