Going Home Again

Going Home Again

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You can come home again.

You Can't Go Home Again.

1. Despite George Webber's belief that he was not influenced by his aunt's puritanical, mountain-clan upbringing, what effects do you think her "endless stories of death and sorrow" had on him? How was his character influenced by his father's abandonment of the family for another woman, and by his mother's death from a broken heart? 2.Of George's editor in the novel it is said, "Fox really has ...

Going Home Through an Unknown Street

We present a new strategy for searching for a goal in a street. The strategy works in two phases. First it follows an angular bisector, then it uses circular arcs based only on one side of the street. A competitive factor of 1.514 is achieved which is remarkably close to the lower bound of √ 2. Secondly, we assume that the location of the goal is known to the robot. We prove a lower bound of √ ...

Edwards: Transcatheter Valve Leader Proves You Can Go Home Again

After exploring a number of new product markets to drive growth in the decade since its spin-off from Baxter, Edwards has found its sweet spot in its own backyard: heart valves. Through an aggressive early acquisition, the company has emerged as the leader in what looks to be the next major device product market: transcatheter valves. But in building a transcatheter valve business, Edwards must...