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...Rope That Knows Inventor: Squid Labs Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: squid-labs.com As any fire fighter or rock climber can tell you, a simple rope can save your life-as long as it doesn't fray or break without warning. Because Smart Rope is embedded with electrically conductive metal fibers, it can sense the amount of weight it is bearing and alert users to a load that is too great. A handheld receiver relays any problems to the owner with a warning message. Smart Rope can also be used for mooring boats, securing valuables or in rescue operations. Next...
...tell you how appreciative I am that she brought us on the radar screen," says Ho of Elam. "Companies don't look beyond minorities and women to look at minority women. Asians, for instance, may have kind of positive stereotypes that we work hard and we're smart. But Asian women are considered submissive and weak...
...leave more confused and more turned off to the material than when we arrived. Too often there is too much talking, too little listening, and virtually no constructive dialogue going. Such criticisms are hardly new, but, surprisingly, the two myths perpetuating these weekly disasters still linger: Myth #1: Smart people automatically know how to teach. Most of us have already learned the fallacy of this one the hard way, but the University administration still seems to rely upon it. Many cite the high CUE scores most TFs receive as evidence of their competence, but these people fail to realize that...
...will have to make up with patience and control. “They way that we are going to beat them is with slow, ugly, old school water polo,” assistant coach Ricky Offsay ’05 said. “If we play really smart controlled water polo, we have a chance to do something interesting. If we get crazy and hyper and try to get into a swim meet with them, it could get ugly. The way to beat Princeton is to beat them 5-4 not 10-9.” Princeton?...
...victory over Dartmouth in an Oct. 18 scrimmage, the team found that these traits gave the defense an edge. “I think physically we were in better shape than they were,” Vaughn said. “We also have a very smart team on the ice: We know when to jump in the play and when to hang back and save ourselves. We have a way of seeing the ice that I think other teams don’t have.” With much speculation over whether Harvard will be able to overcome such...