Word: precisionism
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The next Lions goal proved to be the backbreaker. The rains came roaring back the second the ball entered the net, Columbia goalkeeper Marcela Calidonio came up with some key saves on the following possessions (she totalled 14 on the afternoon), and the Crimson’s shots lost precision...
Their optimism was soon dashed. On the first day of flight, the astronauts tried to deploy a new instrument-pointing system (IPS), designed in West Germany, that aimed three of the onboard telescopes at celestial objects. The precision of the IPS is equivalent to focusing on a dime two miles...
Why is this holocaust different from all other holocausts? In raw nightmare numbers, the Nazi extermination of 6 million European Jews ranks below the Soviet Union's systematic starvation of the rebellious Ukraine in 1932-33 (10 million by Stalin's count) and Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward into...
Branding, like ballet, becomes poetry in motion, a slick sequence of moves that turn a mere job into an art form. Whether breaking broncs or chasing wild cows across cedar-infested slopes, punching cows demands courage, precision and a certain élan. Ross Knox understands the cowboy's art. So...
Yet the researchers stress the still primitive nature of their craft. In the case of Mount St. Helens, one of the most heavily instrumented volcanoes ever, experts predicted many aspects of the 1980 eruption, yet they were caught off guard by both its fury and the extent of the mudflows...