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...past six months, to access the newest releases, you have had to supply something perhaps even harder to replicate than your fingerprints: fine motor skills. Your typing speed and the pressure of your fingers on the computer keys are a rhythmic pattern that you repeat every time you type a given word, a pattern nearly impossible for someone else to duplicate...
...solution might be an automated syrup dispenser, which for now sits in the Starbucks R&D lab but could speed up, among other things, the production of blender-made Frappuccinos. That goal was given fresh urgency in July when same-store sales for the month rose 4%, the slowest pace in nearly five years. The reason, said management: hot weather increased demand for cold drinks, and stores couldn't keep up. Customers saw long lines and kept on walking. It was a rare financial miss, and Starbucks' stock dropped 9% on the news (it's still up more than...
...would imagine that every team is dealing with injuries,” Stone said. “The game has become so physical. Just the speed alone, even if you’re not hit by somebody, if you fall, anything can happen. There’s a greater opportunity for impact in so many ways. Everybody’s battling with that...
...requisite skill to challenge the women’s team. But possessing the ability of transitioning to the women’s game’s style of play—that’s a different story.“It’s definitely a full speed game when we play—but the women’s basketball game is more fundamentally sound— the defense is a lot quicker,” Boswell said. “So we’re still playing really aggressive, but in the style of the women?...
After a few minutes of trying the instruments, one realizes that slower is better. Jerk too hard on Pythagoras’ handle, and the bells don’t sound. But play them slowly and rhythmically and they spring to life. In fact, within a certain range of speeds, each speed produces a different tone...