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...company's increasingly vertically integrated production. Its movement (i.e., the watch's inner workings) is made up of 200 minuscule pieces?52 in the tourbillon mechanism alone. (The tourbillon is a fancy device originally designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled from start to finish by a single craftsman at Daniel Roth & Gérald Genta, Bulgari's workshop for its most complicated timepieces, in Le Sentier, Switzerland. A "grand complication"?as the most complex watches, like Tourbillons, are called?requires more than 3,000 production steps and 300 quality-assurance checks. Each watch can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes A Watch Tick | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...rule with Chopra's books, the proceedings finish up with clearly laid-out instructions to help the reader find the magic lying at the heart of his or her own world. "Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time." "Judgment is a negative belief system held in place by stuck energy." "Fear is the spiritual opposite of love." And so forth. "Damn it," Jess remarks at one point in his adventure. "I was caught between sobbing and screaming. En-chantment overload will do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...time, Magnarelli had been leading the team with 6.3 rebounds per game and was second with 10.8 points per game, production that certainly could have helped avoid its eventual fate—a last-place finish in the Ivy League while going 0-15 on the road...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: The Missing Link | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...March. Expectations are high, with the team picked fourth in the preseason Ivy League media poll. But the expectations are unlikely to go to the heads of the seniors, as before their freshmen campaign, the team—with another talented senior class—was picked to finish second in the league. Harvard rewarded those expectations with eight straight league losses in February and March to finish closer to the bottom than...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Three To Lead | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...three veteran seniors and a few experienced juniors, youth will be a big theme this year, as the team sports seven freshmen on its roster.The seven first-years come from seven different states, and each player will bring a unique skill set to a team that was picked to finish fourth in the Ivy League in the preseason media poll. The players are not focused on the ranking, though.“We were brought here to win an Ivy championship and that’s our goal,” freshman forward Andrew Van Nest says.Van Nest...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Youth is Served | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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