Word: patterning
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...things are finally looking up for the electronic nose. Thanks to advances in chip technology and pattern-recognition techniques, increasingly tiny sniffers are beginning to live up to their moniker. Today e-noses are being tested for everything from disease detection to disaster prevention, and lower-priced models are starting to come on the market--including an $8,000 device called the Cyranose 320 being introduced this week by Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif...
Jackson's interest in Eastern thought and Native American mysticism (hence Sacred Hoops) increasingly informed his approach to coaching. Drawing from Buddhism, he speaks often of rejecting selfishness and egotism. In winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls, he emphasized selfless movement without the ball in a pattern known as the triangle offense. The triangle forced defenses to stretch, to cover everyone, everywhere--and that left the opposing team vulnerable to Michael Jordan...
...each line alliterating with one or both of the first two. Heaney follows these rules to the letter in such lines as "No one could miss their murderous feuding" or "The shepherd of people was sheared of his life." But he also regularly works supple variations on this pattern, letting the Anglo-Saxon rhythms echo as an undercurrent in lines that would seem, in another context, almost prosaic: "She turned then to the bench where her boys...
...noticing one remarkable thing: life goes on. Concerns that China would make good on its promise to attack the island if Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election Saturday have been allayed - for now. And so Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking in a post-victory speech in Mandarin as a seeming display of respect to China, said...
...current account deficit may be too complex to become an election issue, but if it continues its current surge it could become the economic cloud that rains heavily on the next presidency. The problem is partly a product of the new pattern of U.S. manufacturing: Some 40 percent of U.S. imports are goods manufactured overseas by U.S. corporations. "The best hope for relief is that Japan, China and other Asian governments manage to revive their economies and drop remaining trade barriers so that they buy more goods and services from the U.S.," says Baumohl. But while America waits and hopes...