Word: dumbness
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...placard but later declared the seal "a one-time thing for a one-time event." Whatever the original intent, it was a serious gaffe for an operation that has made miraculously few mistakes during a long, tough campaign. Political pros say the mistake is a reminder of how dumb even a smart campaign can be--reflecting a blindness to the danger that Obama can at times come off as too sure of himself...
...digging for it, extending an 8 ft. (2.35 m) robotic arm outfitted with a movable scoop. First, however, scientists will use landing-site images to build a virtual 3-D computer map of the terrain so they can operate the arm from Earth. "The arm itself is kind of dumb," said Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "It doesn't even know where the surface...
...time on the playing field of their sport and 95% training for that sport--either by pounding weights, sprinting or doing more high-tech plyometrics, which involves a lot of leaping and side-to-side movements. The company's pitch: During that 95% training time, don't use some dumb running shoe; wear our Prototype. The company is offering three types of sneakers: the Speed Trainer is the lightest, most breathable shoe, designed for athletes who spend the bulk of their time trying to get quicker. The Power Trainer is for the bulky guys; it comes with extra cushioning...
...racially motivated, perhaps stemming from a territorial dispute between rival gangs of "taggers," whose grafitti has increasingly shown up on the campus in recent months. The rest blame it on something more benign: ennui. "One young man said, 'This is not a racial issue. This is just people being dumb,'" says Holly Priebe-Diaz, who leads the district's intervention team...
Legible or not, that kind of thing was not to everyone's taste. If you were a formalist, dedicated to the ever more stringent purification of color and form, all those goats and chickens were dumb and demoralizing. Hadn't this guy ever heard of the sublime? But if you were a young artist looking for permission to do something utterly new, Rauschenberg's interlocking serendipities, his big yes to everything, were a key that turned in your brain. All kinds of subsequent art?Pop, installations, even performance art?would owe something to the combines...