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...Electrophoresis is slow. You can’t really speed it up,” Church told Reuters News Service this month. “But with a digital camera, you can go as fast as electronics can go.” Church did not return requests for further comment...
...postcard to The Crimson from Beirut. I was working for a non-profit (without a glossy brochure, to be sure) coordinating an exchange program between Middle Eastern and American college students. The summer before, I conducted experiments on the spore covering of the anthrax bacterium, finding lab work too slow-paced to really capture my interest. This past summer, I was one of those pasty i-bankers emerging squinty-eyed into the sun after a long summer spent staring at CNBC and Excel’s Visual Basic editor. And journalism? Outside of The Crimson, I’m pretty...
...about complexity, for example. "Evolution by natural selection is a brilliant answer to the riddle of complexity because it is not a theory of chance," explains Dawkins. "It is a theory of gradual, incremental change over millions of years, which starts with something very simple and works up along slow, gradual gradients to greater complexity. Not only is it a brilliant solution to the riddle of complexity; it is the only solution that has ever been proposed." To attribute nature's complexity to an intelligent designer merely removes the origin of complexity to the unseen designer. "Who designs the designer...
...when she went into a store in the middle of the day to buy lipstick that she would be tagged as a retiree. "Most executive women feel that if you aren't productive every minute, you're going downhill. We've learned to give ourselves permission to relax, go slow and have...
...take advantage of cheaper labor costs, but LG's and Samsung's real advantage is quality: $1,000 washing machines compete with the best ones from GE and Whirlpool. "They're really competing on products, not price," says Eric Bosshard, an analyst at FTN Midwest. Maytag has been slow to keep up; its last new front-loading washer debuted in 1997. Until those new product lines are ready, Maytag can't take advantage of lower costs at its newer, more efficient plants in South Carolina and Mexico, which make them. To stay afloat, it has outsourced some production overseas...