Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying with the electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previously thought to be the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world applications.
For those not in the know, the "Fancy Nancy" series of storybooks are about a little girl who likes to say "bonjour" instead of "hi, " is obsessed with extreme dress-up, and attempts to bedazzle the boring, plain world around her in a way that would make even Elton John go, 'Phh ... tacky.
They should be the most boring companies in the world and just make loans to high quality people and companies.
Welcome to the world's newest Monaco, a haven for the ultra-rich in what until recently was mocked as one of the most straight-laced, boring cities in the world.
Instead of static, boring quests in an unchanging world, our dynamic event system creates a living, breathing world that bustles with energy and responds to player actions.
These workers carry out specialised tasks on our tunnel-boring operation and travel around the world as employees of the Italian company that is doing the work.
Something boring or ugly is a symbol to the world that you are prepared to accept less than the best.
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But they don't need or care to be inundated with it 24 hours a day, and forcing me into one ecosystem every place I wander to online seems to be unnecessarily homogenizing, where the world of the internet is bound to become a more boring, less awesome place.
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Midfielder Andres Iniesta, who scored the winner in the 2010 World Cup final, says Spain isn't bothered by the "boring" tag.
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The majority of chief executive officers attending the World Economic Forum in Davos this week say they believe 2013 is going to be rather boring.
According to the founder, the APPP wants to call attention to the untold ineffective and boring PowerPoint (and Keynote, Prezi, and other software assisted) presentations given in Switzerland and around the world every day.
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