If my swing was a jumbled puzzle, at least one piece was put into place.
Not the kind of puzzle you buy at the museum that has a little print of Monet's haystacks on it, mind you, but one of those 5, 000-piece monsters that forces you to recreate every inch of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.
"We've been working on it for five years, " said Janos Kovacs, chief executive at the puzzle-master's Rubik Studio design firm.
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While many players may peek at a puzzle, only a select few devote enough time and effort to transform them from a time-waster into a passion.
Another piece of the puzzle to consider when looking at an acquisition target is cash return, which is extremely low these days.
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The last piece of the puzzle was capital expenditures, and at what point companies would start investing in their core business.
Pieces of slime mould, an amoeba-like organism, were enticed through a 30-square-centimetre (five-square-inch) maze by the prospect of food at the end of the puzzle.
Back at this lighthouse, the first puzzle is a series of bells, needing to be rung in a particular order to open a door.
In the nineties, the focus turned to specialization, with swimmers taking aim at dominating their piece of the larger puzzle.
Understanding the role of signalling resolves the puzzle of why yeshiva attendance did not fall sharply at 35 years old when ultra-orthodox men typically became draft exempt anyway.
An answer to this puzzle comes from Trevor Harris, a fellow professor here at Columbia.
"This was the final part of the puzzle, " said Dr Tom Clarke, a lecturer at the school of biological sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), who led the research.
"It's like a big jigsaw puzzle, " says Ted Gifford, an operations research scientist at Schneider.
This was a puzzle because, in general, bigger animals are usually much better at surviving the island's extremely cold winters.
To help piece together the shuttle disaster puzzle, investigators plan to assemble the shuttle fragments beginning this week at NASA's shuttle base in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The study led by Irv Kornfield, a professor of zoology at the University of Maine, may help solve that puzzle by providing answers that are based on science.
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"When we look at biomarkers, it's just a piece of the puzzle in life, " says Brewer.
One reason Mr. Pleskowicz and a new generation of Rubik's fanatics can solve the notoriously difficult puzzle in record time: They don't use Rubik's Cubes at all, instead substituting souped-up Chinese knockoffs engineered for speed.
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For example, imaging playing Metal Gear Solid 2 at home on your PlayStation and, while trying to solve a puzzle, you could actually transfer this to your mobile and carry on playing while in a bus or car.
He successfully solved the puzzle and the film and went on to win the coveted Palme D'Or at Cannes film festival and a place in movie history.
How a thing could be something while at the same time being the opposite of that something is a logic puzzle worthy of Raymond Smullyan or perhaps the Tootsie Pop Owl .
But at the end of the day you are talking about a very thin physics puzzle game where the characters don't have much of a story.
Chris Sander, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues have tried to solve this puzzle.
Still, Ted Scardamalia, director of product analysis at research firm Portelligent, says standardizing is more a business consideration than an engineering puzzle.
The puzzle is compounded by the fact that the world ran a persistent current-account deficit for at least three decades until 2005.
At many times, the margin is so small, it is very difficult to solve this puzzle.
If you have a kid that is intrigued by puzzles and you want to teach him real-world skills in thinking logically while having fun at the same time, you might want to consider buying him or her one or more puzzle boxes as a gift.
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Things must be getting a little weird at Palm right now, as every day seems to add a new piece to an already confusing puzzle.
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Recently Sun has moved aggressively into storage, but Kraemer sees storage leaders such as EMC (nasdaq: EMC - news - people) prospering at Sun's expense, as storage becomes an ever more important piece of the information technology puzzle.
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