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...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...
...boat—and the new captain, no less, fresh from a second straight national championship—he’d have gotten it through his head. That he, if anyone, would stop discussing Jesus and rowing, like he was on his way to worship and not to toil...
...first address to the British Parliament, amidst the heat of the Nazi onslaught, Winston Churchill proclaimed, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” In the first big opportunity of his collegiate career, sophomore linebacker Ryan Tully offered everything he had, but added one new item to Churchill’s list—vomit...
...result, the agency's 2,500 scientists tend to toil in anonymity, despite their contribution to popular commercial culture. "I'm constantly amazed how few people know we exist," says Glenn. "When I told someone recently that I work for the USDA, she said, 'Oh, so you're a meat inspector...
...does the Howard-Costello partnership measure up on these points? Is it looking beyond the three-year election cycle? Although some may grumble about the 10% goods and services tax introduced in 2000, it was a necessary adjustment and modernization of the tax system that required bureaucratic toil and a willingness to take political risks, but not great courage or imagination. Reforming wage bargaining and introducing user-pays for education and health across the board have been done gradually. A fairly benign, mainly symbolic, deal such as the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. is a metaphor for the Howard...