Word: lightweight
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...website called 37signals.com he learned about the virtues of lightweight programming languages like Ruby on Rails, which are ideal for the project he envisioned. He visited RentACoder.com and Elance.com sites where you can find software developers. He picked up the jargon he needed to describe his project so he could put it out for a bid, and he found his first programmer - in the Ukraine - who agreed to start building the digital scaffolding for the site. Within months, Tayman had a virtual staff of 20 employees working for him in five different countries. "In fact, I didn't even meet...
...Harvard men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew teams will finally get to break the ice this weekend with their first races of 2009 on the Charles River...
...capture. During the Korean War of the 1950s, U.S. forces used armor made of fiberglass, nylon and heat-treated aluminum. Today an array of protective gear is available including the soft ballistic vests favored by police and S.W.A.T. team members, often made out of Kevlar, a lightweight fiber five times stronger than steel. Hard armor plates, on the other hand, are made of thick ceramic or metal engineered to withstand high-powered assault weapons and are more often used in the military...
...fifth-ranked lightweight crew team began its dual racing season Saturday by finishing 4-0. Against fourth-ranked Cornell and ninth-ranked Penn, Harvard won two of five races. The Crimson swept both sixth-ranked Georgetown and seventh-ranked Columbia...
...next race for Harvard’s lightweight team is April 11, when the Crimson hosts Dartmouth and M.I.T. in the Biglin...