Word: winded
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...persuasive pitch and a knack for fund raising. With the support of the U.N., his so-called $100 laptop quickly found backing from, among others, Google, Red Hat, Advanced Micro Devices and Nortel. His team is still making prototypes, but a finished motherboard was delivered in April. A wind-up crank has been replaced by a new foot pedal to supply power in areas lacking electricity. "The actual decision to make millions of laptops will happen sometime in December or January," he says, predicting that finished machines could be ready by next spring. He hopes to start in seven countries...
...last days at West Point, I watched from the stands as the class of 9/11 took the art of parading to its farcical zenith. A high wind had blown a tall plumed hat off one of the lead cadets, forcing the hundreds who followed in box formation to try to step over it without glancing down or altering their parade stride. As you might imagine, that did not work out very well. Cadet after cadet ended up stumbling over a hat that could have easily been picked up and tossed...
...path to the rest of your life now (and why wait, really?), you’d better start finding ways to contend with the massive pool of talent in which you’re presently immersed and in which, if you aren’t careful, you could wind up submerged...
...itself to the Constitution, the rule of law and respect for human and civil rights. Like most Americans, I remember 9/11 with sadness, a sadness that deepens when I think of what our country could have been five years after the day when we were all one. Dorian de Wind Austin, Texas, U.S. "The nation that fell to earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that...
...October, insurance executives worldwide were allowing themselves a collective sigh of relief as an unusually uneventful hurricane season was winding down in the Atlantic. And when another superstorm touched off by global warming blew through London and around the world on Oct. 30, they were[an error occurred while processing this directive] far more prepared than they would have been even a year ago. The London storm was not literal, but political: Nicholas Stern, a respected former World Bank economist, released his long-awaited report on the long-term economic impact of climate change. Commissioned by Britain's Chancellor...