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...courts and planted a new variety of groundcover. The new grass was 100% perennial rye; the old courts had been a mix of 70% rye and 30% creeping red fescue. The new lawn was more durable, and allowed Wimbledon's groundsmen to keep the soil underneath drier and firmer. A firmer surface causes the ball to bounce higher. A high bounce is anathema to the serve-and-volley player, who relies on approach shots skidding low through the court. What's more, rye, unlike fescue, grows in tufts that stand straight up; these tufts slow a tennis ball down...
...Cloud Gate also distorts Kapoor a bit--at least in the U.S., where his complicated output is always in danger of being overwhelmed by this one singular sensation. You get a much firmer picture of him in "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," an indispensable show that runs through Sept. 7 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. Organized by Nicholas Baume, the ICA's chief curator, it brings 14 Kapoors dating from 1980 to the present into a single long gallery that's also something of a fun house, assuming that a fun house can be smart, subtle...
...over again, would you have started drawing firmer contrasts with Senator Obama earlier during the primary process? Well I think that every campaign has a rhythm to it. This campaign has had a lot of interesting twists and turns. One of the events that I believe helped me in the elections yesterday was the realization that Senator McCain was going to be the Republican nominee. Democrats and independents suddenly said, "Oh boy, this is going to be interesting. We better vote for someone who can go up against Senator McCain." No one could have predicted that, but that...
...also concern in Europe over issues such as intellectual property rights violation in China; some 70% of European fakes come from China." Jain says India, whose growth, unlike China's, has been primarily domestically driven, is beginning to look more promising. "The E.U.'s calculation is that getting a firmer hold and greater market access in India will be more fruitful in the longer run," he says, "providing the enabling environment improves...
...Nobel Committee strongly praised the efforts of Gore and the IPCC for driving increased recognition of global warming’s threat. In the 1980s it “seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and consequences still more apparent...