Word: nimbler
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...motions very well, or precisely, and there were no good games for them. That's not surprising, because building a system of this kind is a very hard technological problem. But Microsoft's Xbox division has a somewhat different corporate culture than the rest of the company - it's nimbler and friendlier to innovation - and Kipman and his colleagues are extremely clever. Which is good, because they were going to have to innovate like hell to make this work...
...Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Its plaintive cries were recorded, and can be heard by those dialing a special toll number. Word of the hot line caused pandemonium, and as many as 200,000 calls a day were logged. Zoo officials hope the baby's 226-lb. mother has become nimbler since last year, when she accidentally crushed her firstborn to death...
States are shaping their sales pitches to appeal to the Defense chief's drive to transform the military into a nimbler high-tech force that can battle stateless threats like al-Qaeda. South Carolina is touting Shaw Air Force Base as the perfect staging area for F-16s to guard the East Coast from a terrorist air attack. Massachusetts insists that Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford and the Army's research center in Natick are ideal for studying the high-tech hardware Rumsfeld covets, since they're close to science centers like M.I.T. The state also hopes that...
...Passau is a textbook example of what is supposed to happen after a monetary union. Long before the euro became legal tender in 12 European countries on Jan. 1, 2002, economists and policymakers pledged that one of its benefits would be to facilitate price competition across borders, leading to nimbler and more robust national economies. Such "price harmonization" was one of many economic virtues the euro was supposed to usher in: it would eliminate many transaction costs, put an end to bruising currency devaluations, allow savers and lenders to benefit from a bigger capital market and, overall, be a shot...
...most widely read of a new wave of Microsoft employees who have been allowed to write freely about the company in online journals, or blogs. His blog, Scobleizer, has repeatedly called for the company to voluntarily do what the Justice Department couldn't compel--split into separate, nimbler companies, a.k.a. Baby Bills. (Gates is vehemently opposed to the idea...