Word: pieds
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...from one event to the other, herding the 30-some-odd contestants around like an inexperienced babysitter at a children's birthday party. The former computer programmer has been without a job for less than two months and says the idea for the four-event competition - Telephone toss, Payday piñata, Pin-the-Blame-on-the-Boss and the "You're Fired!" race - just popped into his head one night. "Normally you think of things like this but never do them," he says, "but I have so much free time right now, I decided...
...despite the event's bleak inspiration, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful. Contestants yell and clap and egg each other on, and no one seems upset when the Payday piñata breaks on the very first try - revealing Payday candybars. With New York easing its way into spring, being outdoors under a blue sky is almost as refreshing as the chance to stab a thumbtack into a fat, balding, caricature of a boss...
...couple of hours up the road, in a non-descript industrial estate, Pi Research develops software to run wind-tunnel tests, and collects and scrutinizes the findings for Renault and a handful of other teams. Program manager John Frankham says the new limits on testing are "not necessarily bad for us." Getting as much data as possible in the shorter time available will be increasingly important, he says. But as team budgets are squeezed, "we need to be cleverer" than competitors, says Frankham. "We have to think harder and harder...
...refining technology. More than 30% of its roughly $9 billion in annual revenue is put back into research and development, Aylett says; the wider engineering sector reinvests just 3%. That emphasis on research has helped motor sport cultivate technologies for use in areas outside racing such as aerospace. Pi Research has an eye on growing its share of business in the defense and marine-craft industries. With Grand Prix teams putting the brakes on spending, diversification may be the best chance for survival. Driving Change A raft of new rules comes into play for the 2009 Formula One season...
...Pi Day will pass by this Saturday, March 14, without the traditional festivities organized by the Mathematics Department, leaving at least one young math aficionado disappointed. Eight-year-old Ian Reid found out about the annual challenge to memorize the digits of pi last year. By New Year’s Day, he could recite 100 digits. “I haven’t even told him yet,” said Jasper Reid, Ian’s father. “He’s going to be disappointed.” In the past, celebrations...