Repeating the address to the Tamilian boy from the shop, he set off with a slow, light step, like a fat man jogging.
With help from signals from roadside markers and traffic lights, in-car computers will be able to determine if a car should slam on the brakes, alert the driver to a passing vehicle in the blind spot or slow for a red light up ahead that another driver isn't heeding.
Since they were first made in 1995, Bose-Einstein condensates have become commonplace as experimental tools. (They are particularly valued for their ability to slow the speed of light all the way down to zero.) Dr Steinhauer and his colleagues created a condensate out of a gas of rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap.
In light of the slow PC growth, we feel a shifting focus to other markets is a welcome move for the company and should augur well for its outlook.
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Their critics say they are slow to warm up, the light flickers, and they are too big for some fittings.
We then take hundreds of these narrow videos (each shot at a slightly different angle) and create a carefully synchronized, slow-motion composite of the light pulses.
It's what we call a light echo, an effect that we've seen around supernovas - stars that explode - and because of the vast scales involved, the speed of light is actually very slow.
Normally you want to leave car parks in a hurry, but here the ambient light and sound encourages you to slow down.
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And when light passes through such an environment, it will slow down.
The way agency search is practiced now is too slow for a marketing world that runs at the speed of light, and it is too expensive for companies (and agencies) that need to prevent harmful waste.
The nova is providing a unique stellar laboratory, shedding light on processes normally confined to supernovae that are too slow for Earth-bound astronomers to learn from quickly.
Last week a report from the Commons Education Select Committee issued a "red light" warning to the government, urging it to slow down and rethink its proposed changes to GCSEs and the exam system.
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As summer rolls around, millions of American will light their grills, their smokers and proceed to grill, slow cook, and sear tons of meats, veggies and even pizzas and desserts, as grilling culture becomes more pervasive and more sophisticated.
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Some economists think the Fund has consistently been much too slow to modify its views on exchange-rate policies, both in the light of policy experience and of economic research.
The technology was slow to take off, as some cities found it difficult to integrate preemption with antiquated traffic-light controllers.
Whether it's used to capture an everyday moment in an astonishing new light or to analyze a golf swing, the capabilities of the TL350's super-slow motion playback are endless.
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