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The ship had impressed her, requiring only a small amount of tinkering to make it function at its full potential.

With that course and a bit of tinkering in my free time, I became an authority on the subject.

For that very reason it is unlikely either to travel well or to benefit much from tinkering.

In this article, I begin to put that tinkering-and-learning clause to the test with an in-depth look at the anatomy of a Shale application.

It requires a bit of innovation and tinkering.

The upshot of all this tinkering is a trout that has twice the abdominal muscle mass of its traditional counterparts.

The upshot of all this tinkering is a trout that has twice the overall muscle mass of its traditional counterparts.

American global supremacy is not about to be challenged by China's tinkering with aircraft-carriers.

The programming and hardware tinkering will bring back memories of a time when digging into something new was truly fun.

Without thorough-going reform, no amount of tinkering with the rules will get Mexico out of its murky political swamp.

They are trying to grow supersize salmon by tinkering with the genes for growth hormone.

But that great, global dream cannot be realized by tinkering around the edges of reform.

It would be another matter, however, if governments started tinkering with the internet's address book, the Domain Name System (DNS).

Eaton says he spent years as part of the team tinkering with a grilled alternative, and the rollout follows KFC's longest market test ever.

The whole corporate superstructure of our economy can be made "too big to fail, " beyond retrospective regrets or futile tinkering.

I knew next to nothing about software, but I was good with tinkering, and was building a computer.

France's tinkering with Meccano is a part of a renewed trend of industrial intervention by governments in rich countries.

Worthwhile as they probably are, such measures look like tinkering when set against the capacity of capital markets to wreak economic havoc.

But Washington insists on torturing the numbers and tinkering around the edges rather than facing this truth.

Chagrined , he retired from politics and spent many of his remaining days tinkering with egg and corn yields on his New York farm.

Tinkering with the independence of the Federal Reserve could have dire consequences and shouldn't be undertaken in a spirit of vengeance.

00pm - Pretend to "work" by reading email and tinkering with PowerPoint slides for a talk I have to give the next week.

His tinkering at last has given English football a genuine title race, even if it is between two teams only, albeit of contrasting styles.

Yet if most of what it confronts is its own internal circuitry and logic, then it spends its days tinkering with its latest fantasy.

The authors say that what is needed is not merely institutional tinkering but a different frame of mind.

Aquarius builds their costume out of spare flashlights and spends all night tinkering when it shorts.

The VAT adjustment is more a case of micro-level tinkering to provide relief to a labour-intensive sector.

His late-night tinkering was fueled by the steroids and painkillers used to treat his lymphoma.

The researchers didn't engineer the mouse to tweet, though there was some genetic tinkering that led to the singing mouse's arrival.

Apple, ever tinkering with the app store, has just released a very interesting option for developers: bulk educational discounts.

So far, US officials have steered clear of tinkering with pay for bankers below the executive suite.

"Rolling Through the Bay" toothpick sculpture will beon display in the Tinkering Studio until the end of June.

Yet slot-machine development, assisted by advances in networking technology, involves more than simply tinkering with payout algorithms.

Diesel fuel is less thick and usually can be burned in an engine with little or no tinkering.

Many scientists are understandably nervous about tinkering on a grand scale with the atmosphere and the oceans.

Its founders cut their teeth tinkering with video technologies used in the IDF's intelligence and weapons systems.

But tinkering with the virus created a powerful new strain which, within nine days, killed every animal it was injected into.

A century later, might scientists tinkering with another apparently inefficient process be on the verge of another unexpected breakthrough?

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.

Chewbacca and Solo spent hours modifying and tinkering on their beloved Falcon, souping it up far beyond its original performance specs.

Too much damage to or tinkering with an item would, of course, raise suspicions anyway.

Instead, institution-building took the form of tinkering.

The government would carry on acting like a tinkering housekeeper with a habit of pinching loose change.

The array of big-name options has meant constant second-guessing and tinkering, which clearly has not helped Messi.

Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain.

experimenters are invited to suggest alliterative formulations of "tinkering vs. collecting data. "

Like cooks going wrong by tinkering with recipes that already work, forecasters defeat themselves with too much fine-tuning.

Diesel derived from coffee is less thick and can usually be burned in an engine with little or no tinkering.

Hocicaday, formerly a physicist, began tinkering with a miniature fuel cell in his basement years ago.

But the Obama administration has been tinkering with immigration policy all year, and now it has announced another tweak.

Stern Stewart has protected its turf in part by tinkering with definitions of profit, in ways that are by turns sensible and dubious.

More startling than Confucius, the movie, falling victim to this act of market tinkering, is Confucius the giant.

Governments are not competent to control the web, and their tinkering would diminish our ability to make our own choices.

Quick, ears, listen to LingYiQing said: "I think you are very contrived, like tinkering with polish, unworthy the monitor. "

The US tax system, after 25 years of incompetent tinkering, is a joke.

Not by tinkering with the looks of tools that are meant to help you do the things you want to do.

The accident was a summer program Graham started in 2005 for college students who were tinkering with business ideas.

But it is a concession, since it accepts government tinkering with pay and lending that could yet evolve into something tougher.

Nor does Lord Turner believe that tinkering with the structure will improve supervision.

To this end, Ceres is tinkering with three species of grass: Miscanthus, switchgrass and sorghum.

The limit to the quants' tinkering has been not mathematics but the speed, power and cost of computers.

Our biologists are tinkering with the very recipes for life itself, gaining powers once attributed to gods.

For all Mr Brown's tinkering with the benefits system, a serious push to reform its misaligned incentives began only recently.

TINKERING with the circadian clock, the day-and-night cycle in the physiological processes of all living beings, is rarely a good idea.

This tinkering led them to apiece of ancient maths known as the Chinese remainder theorem.

TechShop, in Menlo Park, California, rents tinkering space and equipment to amateur inventors.

In contrast to the Australian central bank's proactive stance, China's authorities are still tinkering.

In this context, it is puzzling why the administration is tinkering at the fringes with programs designed to enrich Wall Street.

Tinkering with existing institutions cannot provide the independence we need.

But such tinkering, effective though it sometimes is, may no longer be enough.

However, I think our growth as designers comes from tinkering around on each new site, more than from seeing a cool course somewhere else.

But reform proposals from both Washington and Brussels amount to little more than tinkering.

In his quest to unveil the varying shapes, he is constantly tinkering with his experiment.

By tinkering with the clocks of plants and animals, scientists may learn more about the fascinating way our bodies work.

The governors are still tinkering in all sorts of ways, even as many national debates remain stuck in partisan gridlock.

Torvalds kept tinkering, and before long he had created a working operating system kernel.

Given that America has been tinkering with its housing system for 80 years and still hasn't got it right, that seems optimistic.

Tinkered with the engine, hoping to discoverthe trouble; tinkering with the economy by trying various fiscal policies.

Brian: Oh, nothing in particular, I guess, I always like mathematics and tinkering with machines.

Stop tinkering with my television and take it to the repair shop.

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade , but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School .

If the answer to question 4 is no, then you should again be looking for the assignable cause instead of tinkering with the limits.

But this will not be done by tinkering with its system of government.

These are enterprises far more worthy of the name of genetic engineering than today's tinkering.

But still, despite lots of tinkering with the polymers in the systems, the best that Andersson presented was 2. 8% efficiency.

Tinkering with exchange rates cannot solve the so-called "imbalances" plaguing the world economy.

In the final days before the budget on March 24th, the Labour government is tinkering with the system.

If the answer to question 2 is no, then you should look for the assignable cause instead of tinkering with the limits.

Dale: I think that she's still tinkering with it because she isn't 100 percent sure she's worked out all of the bugs.

Tinkering around with elements of consumer behavior won't deliver the changes we need.

His sons said Dr. Roberts never gave up his love for making things, for tinkering and invention.

Tinkering School is a place where kids can pick up sticks and hammers and other dangerous objects, and be trusted.

A little growth, a little tinkering with entitlements, and we're set for another quarter-century or so.

In 2007 the government announced laudable plans to align the systems better (though its own subsequent tinkering undermined them).

Because it takes longer to install and involves some tinkering to get it to work just right, it's best for more experienced users.

it's also far more tolerant of bottom-up tinkering and undirected trial and error .

I'm addicted to fantasy football. I can't stop tinkering with my team.

So how does tinkering with males' sex cells affect the behavior of females?

If ageing has helped make deflation endemic, tinkering with inflation targets will make little difference.

The switch to more human-friendly digs required some tinkering.

In that spirit, I am going to stop tinkering happily with this column.

Tinkering with not signing a leaving card pales in comparison.

Modest tinkering will not provide the jolt we need.

No wonder the lights don't work-Matt's been tinkering with the switches.

The Puffin may never fly, but other inventors are tinkering.

This is the exact moment that I started creating something called Tinkering School.

Instead, the country faces a string of tinkering changes.

But when you're tinkering with Google Analytics, it's a much easier sell.

the prosody of Vergil, he was tireless in tinkering.

Tinkering with fire creatures won't help you, though.

The crucial condition, insisted on by Congress all along, is that any such future weapons tinkering avoid the need for testing.

He was tinkering away at the broken machine.

A tinkering slave-maker, who mends old chains.

So if you're thinking about sending your kid to Tinkering School, they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.

When tinkering with the guts of SSL, it's important to keep in mind that a mistake could render your connections insecure.

But first, the cars need some tinkering.

That one fact alone could spur more innovation than all the tinkering attempted so far.

Clinton's effort to mandate school uniforms, for example, became emblematic of what liberals derided as presidential tinkering.

Tinkering School doesn't follow a set curriculum.

If we accept this kind of tinkering, can't we accept cloning?

The normal process of tinkering with interest rates is based on eons of data on the effect on growth and inflation.

Officials in China and other developing nations insist their price tinkering is temporary and won't cause long-term problems.

So, if we can't institutionalize tinkering, how do we get more of it?

Now the CEO of Touch Revolution, Hamblin is tinkering with Android so it can work in a slew of gadgets other than wireless phones.

Did you love tinkering with cars?

I asked Promise if he used Facebook, which is officially blocked in China but reachable with some tinkering.

By tinkering with the gene, scientists can make roundworms live 30 to 50 percent longer than they normally would.

I did the 2nd method and it worked for me after some tinkering around.

The Roots of Falsehood Financial Statement in Listed Company and Its Tinkering

And devote your mornings to tinkering with your will,

Tinkering with Skype can allow people to send undetectable messages

Even at college, even with 17- and 18-year-olds, these parents are lingering, involved, invested, tinkering;