Word: wets
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...must have been for director and co-writer David Von Ancken to make - toting all that production gear up into the waist-deep snows, plunging Brosnan (or his stunt double) into the eponymous falls, while wearing a fur coat that must weigh 20 pounds even before it becomes soaking wet. It is not a terrible movie - its beginning holds a certain promise - just, finally, an unengaging...
Those consumers have been gorging themselves at the so-called fast-fashion boutiques, such as H&M, Zara and Mexx. These stores have figured out how to cut the clothing cycle down from six months to six weeks, so their racks are constantly replenished with fresh styles still wet from the runway. Gap, on the other hand, with its huge operations and slower reaction times, has been forced into the riskier business of guessing up front how a season's trends will play out (skinny jeans? newsboy caps?) and making huge bets on a few ideas...
This just in: Everybody has a cold. Global warming lulled us into going outdoors with wet hair, or without warm socks (my grandmother maintained that people caught cold through their ankles), in January. And now, whenever I start telling someone what an awful cold I have, the response is invariably, "Tell be aboud it," or "You think you hab a code...
...getting at that moment. And what you do when you've got a mismatch is you try to clear the buffer. And that takes attention." So learning, says Sirois, is essentially the laborious business of resolving mismatches. "The thing is, you can do a lot of it with this wet, sticky thing called a brain. It's a fantastic, statistical-learning machine." Daniel, exams ended, picks up a plastic tiger and, chewing thoughtfully upon its head, smiles as if to agree...
...This $1,000 widget takes the Roomba one step further. The 18-pound UBot behemoth not only vacuums and sweeps, but it wet mops your floors as well. If you're a diehard robo-fan, you can set up special flooring with invisible barcodes that the UBot reads to determine how best to mop. Future models will clean carpets as well, and might even clean out your wallet...