Word: thilo
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...Thilo Pfau, a professor of bioengineering, and his team first outfitted both jockeys and horses with inertial sensors. The humans wore the instruments in their kidney belts; the animals wore them at the front of the saddle. "The sensors are accelerometers similar to what's in the Wii," says physicist Andrew Spence, who participated in the work. "Once you synchronize the two, you can determine the relative motion of the man and the horse." The jockeys also wore global-positioning trackers so their speed and position could be followed. "The tracker was in the helmet, where the GPS satellites could...
...Lorenzo, editor of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. "People know they will have to make sacrifices." Heading the list of Berlin's problems is the financial crisis facing the municipal government. The Berlin city council, known as the Senate, will present its 2004 budget next week. According to Finance Minister Thilo Sarrazin, Berlin has a j46 billion debt and next year will run a whopping €4.3 billion deficit. By comparison, New York City is suffering its worst budget crisis in 30 years, but has only come up short by €2.8 billion. And New York has 8 million residents...
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