“The Tortoise and the Hare”

1. One of Aesop's fables. A tortoise and a hare hold a race. The hare is so confident of winning that he lies down halfway through and goes to sleep. The tortoise, knowing he must work hard to win, plods along without stopping until he passes the sleeping hare and wins.

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The new quasiparticles are fast, but, counterintuitively, they accomplish that speed by pacing themselves -- a bit like the story of the tortoise and the hare, Delor explained.

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But reach high atop that dusty bookshelf and grab “The Tortoise and the Hare” from Aesop’s Fables.

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“It’s almost like the tortoise and the hare,” said Jerome Kim, director general of the International Vaccine Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Seoul and focused on vaccine research for the developing world.

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It could have been golf’s version of the folk tale, “The Tortoise and the Hare.”

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As in the fable “The Tortoise and the Hare,” perhaps with steady, constant effort, Blue Origin can catch up.

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