Super lifehacker Tim Ferriss is a bit of a masochist, the kind of guy who will ask doctors to drill a chunk of muscle out of his leg to analyze the fibers.
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It dates back to 2004, when American Needle, an Illinois-based hat maker, brought an antitrust case against NFL, claiming the league was using its monopoly power to muscle it out of its fair share of revenue for caps it made bearing NFL logos.
The Darpa-supported team instead moved their machine by using an "artificial muscle" made out of nickel and titanium wire designed to stretch and contract with heat.
But his hopes of ending the century on a high were shattered when a thigh muscle injury saw him pull out of the Paris Open in November, so ending his chances of booking a place in the season-ending ATP World Championships.
Growing its size can give it the pricing muscle to keep others out of its routes.
These two things in combination give them the muscle to knock out much of the competition, for better or worse, regardless of state or nation.
Foreign retailers also like the look of another consequence of government protection Japan's complicated and costly wholesale distribution system, which has survived because small retailers have lacked the muscle to cut out the layers of middlemen or to deal directly with the manufacturer.
That's a lot of new processor muscle, considering the TeraGrid already cranks out 60 teraflops of aggregated computing power per second, with three petabytes of rotating storage.
But earlier in the week, he suffered a painful injury a muscle pull that knocked a rib out of place.
The Newcastle stand-off has not played for England since winning the 2003 World Cup and is currently out of action with an abductor muscle problem.
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After devising the glass used in the iPhone Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously convinced Corning CEO Wendell Weeks to manufacture the glass, which was born out of an effort called Project Muscle in the 1960s Corning says its thin, damage-resistant glass now covers screens on more than 975 devices from 33 companies.
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It was later revealed she had muscle strain in her legs which would put her out of action -- until now.
After all, as Dr Schindall points out, animals use two types of muscle fibre: one for endurance and one for rapid movements.
In addition, research suggests that consuming lean protein 15 to 20 minutes before, during and within one hour of working out may help improve muscle gain.
In the 58th minute, Mair did tremendously well to out-muscle Paul Quinn and get on the end of Steven Robb's free-kick, but at full stretch Meldrum brilliantly parried the home defender's powerful diving header.
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The report includes a survey of primary care trusts in England conducted via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that two out of three did not support a "muscle clinic" at local hospitals for patients.
Pettitte has been out since May 17 with a strained muscle in the back of his left shoulder.
Turning a V-8 over takes muscle and, in my experience, the routine takes a lot out of a starter motor.
Cisse limped out of Monday morning's training session clutching his calf muscle, and headed back to the hotel early with his leg heavily strapped.
London-based Olive Security provides former British Special Air Service troops--one unarmed guard for every four or so engineers who go out on a job--to drive and offer a show of muscle.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Gunmen swooped in on trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and surrounded Libya's Justice Ministry on Tuesday, cutting off roads and forcing employees out of the building in the latest instance of powerful militiamen showing their muscle to press their demands on how Libya should be run more than a year after Moammar Gadhafi's ouster.
Because if they have that muscle, you and they will quickly find out whether they can become committed to the specifics of your organization and job.
Anyway, I dig the makeover in general, but I wonder if Erika will be like the "America's Next Top Model" contestant who gets her head shaved one day and is voted out the next (after some sort of crazy doomed photo shoot for a muscle-relaxing shampoo or something).
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But those efforts had a lot of marketing muscle behind them, whereas NIM has spent nothing on marketing, points out Guenther.
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Pettitte, who turns 41 next month, came out of a start against Seattle on May 16 because of a tight left trapezius muscle, near his pitching shoulder.
"Supporters of this online sales tax bill are trying to muscle it through before senators find out how disastrous it would be for businesses in their states, " Ayotte said.
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 is the most muscular of American muscle cars, with a 5.8 liter V8 plus huge supercharger putting out 662-horsepower for a top speed north of 200MPH.
"Big companies who have the muscle power to command and pay the rents are squeezing the small independents out, " said Ms Williams, owner of the Picture Cafe.
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