Word: inventive
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Over the buzz of misinformation, anxiety and outright lies, the army of investigators working the sniper case still managed to invent new ways to pursue the clues left intact last week. It was an exercise in data management and stamina, with extra points for creativity...
...Over the buzz of misinformation, anxiety and outright lies, the army of investigators working the sniper case still managed to invent new ways to pursue the clues left intact last week. It was an exercise in data management and stamina, with extra points for creativity...
...asked the fashion editor for advice: How to go about constructing a 1,000-word, lavishly descriptive article on the designer’s new collection if every single item in it was brown? She explained to me that it is common currency in the fashion business to invent scores of original labels for what is essentially the same sort of neutral beige color—a hue which is unfortunately “everywhere this season.” Being able to speak fluent brown, it seems, is an essential skill in fashion journalism. My efforts?...
...iRoboters also had to learn about a subject that most scientists never really study: cleaning floors. They got down on their knees and worked out the physics of how dust collects and circulates. Vacuum cleaners consume large amounts of electricity, so they had to invent a new kind of low-power vacuum that would allow Roomba to run on rechargeable batteries. They ran their baby bot over "torture tracks" to test its mobility. They spent a night in a Target store to watch industrial cleaners at work...
...college professor with his own long-unfinished novel. Wonder Boys was a wry 1995 book that became a witty movie last year with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. But it was Kavalier & Clay that made the superabundance of Chabon's gifts superapparent. The story of two boys who invent a Nazi-bashing comic-book hero during World War II, it is an irresistible tale of a lost New York City that is also a superb coming-of-age story. Chabon has just completed the screenplay for a forthcoming film version to be produced by Scott Rudin, who also produced...