Word: unevennesses
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...uneven results have critics wondering if Stringer should break up the company. "It's time Sony takes a hard look at where their non-electronics divisions fit in the larger picture," says Yasunori Tateishi, author of Sony Inside Story. "The company talks about synergy, but it's never been realized...
...Luce offers some remedies for India's pervasive poverty and uneven development: fix labor laws, improve rural infrastructure and social services, and preserve and strengthen democratic institutions. India also must stop the spread of AIDS, he says, and protect its environment, which is decaying fast as the economy heats up. This is all perfectly sensible, but not all of Luce's arguments are rock solid. For example, he laments the stupidity of labeling all of India's diverse Muslim groups as fundamentalists, yet he brushes off the threat from Islamic fanaticism too casually. Its reach may still be miniscule within...
...Many of these haunts are architecturally designed to tap into people's fears. Pickel, who designs haunts throughout the country, knows how to use architecture to creep out people, with features like wide rooms with low ceilings, elusive exits, crawl spaces, or uneven, shifting floors. Other eerie additions include lighting that comes from the ground, a high-tech sound system (allowing a variety of sounds to play at the same time), smells (like rotting earth) and the storyline. "A haunted house is like a horror movie and you are figuring out the story as you walk through it," says Pickel...
...play was halting and shaky. Initially, Harvard’s fans attributed the lackluster play to a lack of motivation, yelling “You gotta want it!” But as the game progressed, it became clear that it was not a lack of motivation but an uneven match-up. “When you have an opponent at this level, it can make simple hard,” Caples said. “The speed of the game will make us stronger.” Indeed, while the pace of the game was brisk as the breeze...
...team discovered that a spring-like mechanism in the birds’ legs helped them keep their balance on uneven ground. The findings, published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have profound implications for developing legs for robots—and, eventually, more mobile prosthetic ones for humans...