Word: slipping
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Compared to your average laptop, netbooks lack specs appeal. These lightweights pack puny processors and tiny screens. But that's exactly what makes the netbook the perfect travel buddy. It'll slip in your hand luggage, so no need to lug around a separate laptop case. And while netbooks struggle to run memory-heavy apps, they're perfect for web-browsing, word-processing and e-mail. In other words, 99% of the stuff you use your bulky laptop for now. Here are three little wonders we recommend. (See the best inventions...
...doesn't stick either. Decades ago, numerous countries came together to develop the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), which allows epidemiological teams to spot new flu viruses as soon as they emerge and get vaccines ready in time. But the GISN only tracks human flu, meaning animal flu can slip by undetected. What's more, pigs that carry influenza tend not to die en masse the way flocks of birds do, eliminating the immediate tip-off that a serious pathogen is at large. None of that is Mexico's fault either. In fact, since human tourists and domesticated animals cross...
...Kenya that winning elections confers a license to steal - is richly reported and reads, at times, like a thriller. Wrong's sketches of Githongo's sleuthing - when a hidden recording device starts playing back while he is still in the company of two top officials, he has to slip from the room coughing loudly - and the story of her own role in helping him when he is forced to flee Kenya for London are particularly satisfying...
...step up its game to make this project a success. Nevertheless, we are the last who should underestimate the capacity of our peers and the Harvard network. Moreover, centrally situated Cambridge real estate does not come on the market every year, and this opportunity is too favorable to let slip by with a characteristic “It’s the UC” eye roll. This weekend, hundreds of prefrosh will descend on campus, and, when they broach the subject of our graveyard social reputation, we can at least tell them that we’re making...
...only people with high self-control who slip up this way - and that can lead to real problems. In the real world, menus contain a lot more than just four options, and anyone confronted with a plate of greens may be tempted to plunge even deeper into the high-calorie, high-fat wasteland that lies beyond mere french fries and Oreos. What's more, vicarious goal fulfillment plays out in subtler ways too. People who are mindful about staying active and working out often notice that on days when they've gone to the gym, they're more inclined...