Word: sapping
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...much hyped Slate, for example, still has no rollout date. Plus, despite its thirst for expansion, HP has a ways to go in key niches such as smart phones, software and storage. "HP will tell you that it doesn't want to compete with its partners - Microsoft, Oracle, SAP," says Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett. "But software has pretty high margins to simply be left on the table...
...plotting his assassination and rode on a rocking horse inside a plane that circled a pagoda nine times. Burma's feared former intelligence chief Gen. Khin Nyunt was rumored to have dressed up as a woman to perform black magic ceremonies, known as yadaya che in Burmese, supposedly to sap the power of his female archrival democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (See pictures of Burma's slowly shifting landscape...
...Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE), who spent last Saturday afternoon on a guided tour of the Matfield Maple Farm. More than 20 students made the journey down to West Bridgeport, Mass. to see how maple sap is extracted from trees and then made into syrup...
...maple farm itself was a model of sustainability, and its owner Richard Forbes a man on a mission as he illuminated the secrets behind the syrup. Followed closely by the women of Harvard science, Forbes explained the intricate assembly of taps and tubes that drain the sweet sap from the trees. Back in the rustic wooden shed that doubled as a gift shop, he demonstrated the hydraulic system that slowly boils 40 gallons of sap down to one gallon of delicious maple syrup...
...University of Chicago experienced its own controversy when it sent prospective applicants a sample admissions essay last month. Unfortunately, the chosen piece was written by a particularly amorous applicant, who confessed to feeling full of “that gooey sap you feel late at night” whenever he thought of his dream alma mater. Some students thought it was clever, others found it apalling, and some wanted to cry because it made them think their own essays weren't original enough...