Chief among the many pleasures of the novel is her creation of an alternative present where nuclear explosions have created an entire populace of conjoined twins, a thriving, energetic subculture of "twofers" who have their own Pride days, marketing niches, film festivals, political candidates and some rather ingenious sexual practices.
With the advent of ingenious microtechnology, Top Golf makes golf practice a competitive activity.
Devising such ingenious, legally ambiguous business models takes practice.
It's a lovely bit of sentimental prose, expressing a conception of life that is pleasant to entertain — namely, that our unthought habits brim with the wisdom of generations, that the blacksmith or carpenter or farmer discharging his daily chores is the last expression of a long practice of trial and error, ingenious precisely because this practice partakes of no theory.
But the reason it does not happen in practice is due to an ingenious work-around that the evolution has built into the design of the eyes – they constantly jiggle in their sockets.
American computer scientist and cowinner, with American computer scientist Leonard M. Adleman and Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir, of the 2002 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their "ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice".
A number of consumer-goods makers have started making smaller pack sizes for older, smaller households.Japan, which has already had lots of practice with older consumers, has developed some ingenious new products for the grandparent generation.
Although the various models pose interesting mathematical problems, and ingenious constructions of pooling designs have been proposed, in practice we rarely are sure about the true model and thus about which pooling design to use.
A clue comes from an ingenious study, which managed to separate the benefits of practicing a movement from the benefits of training the muscle that does the movement.
But, to quote Mr Anwar again, "It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite Asian values as an excuse for autocratic practices and denial of basic rights and liberties".
