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...says Valiante, is Woods' constant quest to be better. As TIME wrote in a 2000 cover story about Woods: "What is most remarkable about Woods is his restless drive for what the Japanese call kaizen, or continuous improvement. Toyota engineers will push a perfectly good assembly line until it breaks down. Then they'll find and fix the flaw and push the system again. That's kaizen. That's Tiger." These words were written after Woods' first reconstruction of his golf swing, a revamping he undertook after winning the 1997 Masters by a record 12 strokes. Despite his continued dominance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger at the Masters: An Ultimate Test of Toughness | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

More Than a Man of the West No one looms larger than Saif in the push for change. Given that he was raised in the bosom of the revolution and holds no official government position, that is unusual. Saif was born a little under three years after his father's bloodless 1969 coup. After graduating in engineering in Libya, he earned an M.B.A. in Vienna, and then a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gaddafi's Son Reform Libya? | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

Banaji said it is important to “push the boundaries” in order to find the most effective pedagogical methods...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Course To Offer Oral Exam | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...quarter—win the face-off, grab the ground ball, run the set, and capitalize on shot opportunities. Harvard gave up eight of nine face-offs in the first quarter alone and won only six of 20 ground balls. The Crimson never possessed the ball long enough to push up field and run its own sets. The Blue Devils controlled the momentum from the first face...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Slow Starts Hold Back Crimson This Year | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...their electronic manifestation - get to be real magazines again, incarnated without paper. The iPad makes the electronic magazine something you get your hands on, something you can play with. Look at the fantabulous app from Popular Science in which each story is a wonderland that you can scroll and push and pull, moving overlay and text and stories around like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes you can't tell advertisement from original content - and I mean this in a good way. Nothing really intrudes on the experience. If you don't like what you see, swipe it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and My iPad: The First 24 Hours | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

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