Designers upload their blueprints to Ponoko's servers; when a customer places an order, Ponoko's laser cutters automatically trim wood and plastic to create the product on the spot.

设计者将样图上传到Ponoko的服务器，在客户下达完订单以后，Ponoko的激光切割机就按照样图切割木头和塑料，而后产品就成形了。

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Eric Abrahamson, Professor of Management at Columbia Business School and author of a new book a Perfect Mess, says: "There is a sweet spot between complete order and complete disorder."

哥伦比亚商学院(Columbia Business School)管理学教授埃里克·亚伯拉罕森(Eric Abrahamson)表示：“在完全有序与完全无序之间存在一个最佳平衡点。”

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Tall order: despite Argentina's struggles during qualifying they eventually sealed their 2010 World Cup spot

离谱的事情：尽管在资格赛中它们遇到了困难，但是最终还是拿到了2010年世界杯足球赛的门票。

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In fact, that's their preferred state is suspended in a fluid where nutrients are widely available to them, and where they can swim from one spot to another in order to get the nutrients they need, or in order to run away from toxic compounds.

事实上,细菌更喜欢生活在,营养丰富易得的悬浮液中,它们可以从一个点游动到另一点,以获取所需营养,或逃离有毒物质

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The neatly designed, New York City-style blocks explode with colour, sound and traffic - marking the spot where Western order and African energy intersect.

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Collins took a chance on putting strikeout-prone Rick Ankiel in the second spot in the order because he was 7 for 16 against Cueto, and Ankiel led off the third with a single.

WSJ: Davis struggles in field and at plate for Mets

Mets manager Terry Collins took a chance on putting strikeout-prone Rick Ankiel in the second spot in the order because he was 7 for 16 against Cueto, and Ankiel led off the third with a single.

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