Word: slowness
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...Having to cope with high usage and an agonizingly slow computer response time led Draves to an upsetting conclusion. “I quickly realized that you basically had to pull an all-nighter to get any work done,” he says. “During the day the machine was basically too slow and unusable. You had to be there really late at night when no one was there...
...endurance contest. But the Tarahumara do two things that are different: they run as a group. Secondly, they alternate between bursts of effort and recovery. That's what's brilliant about their running - it's this really smart, strategic combination of fast and slow...
...book's pacing is uneven - slow at first, rushed at the end - but full of sharply observed detail. In their craving for status and profit, the Lohias prefigure that élite caste of financial risk takers who still - as we are all now painfully aware - determine the course of the world economy. Chowdhury's work is fiction, but it is as true an account...
...congratulated, then, for moving from an understanding of education centered entirely on the importance of their profession, to an idea of education that should—in some imprecise way—encompass a student’s entire life. STUMBLING TOWARD GENERAL EDUCATION Unfortunately, practical change has been slow on the heels of this shift. So far, Gen Ed offerings consist more of old Core and departmental classes than newly created courses, and many professors were obliged to change absolutely nothing about their courses in order to reclassify them. (As Psychology Professor Steven Pinker, who teaches a Science...
...Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing to slow down the process, to give themselves maximum time to find that incendiary something in her rulings and public statements. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he'd like to see Sotomayor confirmed before the Senate leaves town on Aug. 7 for its summer recess...