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...with enthusiasm from Polaroid fans, art photographers and the international media. "It has been unbelievable," Kaps says of the response. "If we are successful, then this has wider implications. We are no art project, not a venture of some madmen - we want to be a thriving business for at least 10 years." Which should give instant-photography lovers plenty to smile about...
That's the way it was in the U.K., at least. In the U.S. - which always had a wilder, frontier relationship with its horses and merely borrowed the sport from the Brits anyway - the rules were looser. American jockeys of the time began wondering what would happen if they did a little work on their own, standing up in the stirrups, bending forward and surfing the motion of the horse as it galloped. What happened was, they went faster - 5% to 7% faster between 1890 and 1900, as more and more riders adopted the idea. That's a huge bump...
...question was, How? Simply knowing that the pose works is not the same as knowing why it works - at least, not in the detail a physicist would like. Recently a group of researchers from the Royal Veterinary College in London decided to find out, using tools Edwardian sportsmen couldn't have imagined...
...strategy can't make the fastest horse-and-riders any faster, at least it promises more photo finishes...
...investigators follow the terrorist trail, there are, at least, encouraging precedents for the country's economic prospects: the 2003 Marriott bombing didn't result in a major investment outflow, and Bali eventually recovered economically from its attacks, which killed more than 220 people on the island. Indonesians can only hope that the latest effort to dissuade foreigners from doing business in Southeast Asia's biggest economy will also fail...