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...That's because the main force of the floor washer is a rapidly rotating brush that buffs the floor with the cleaning agent then sucks up the dirty water into a separate tank. On the front, there's a small vacuum mechanism meant to pull grit and small particles out of the way before the scrubbing. Another advantage the Scooba has over the Roomba is that it's easier to empty out when the cleaning is over. You dump the dirty water into the sink or toilet, shake the vacuum filter out over the trash can and eject the brush...
...better society on broken men." When he analyzes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe finally collapsed 16 years later, Judt argues against conventional wisdom: the credit belongs neither to Poland's Solidarity movement nor Ronald Reagan's big defense budgets, but to Mikhail Gorbachev as the true agent of change. The Soviet leader, says Judt, was cognizant of his empire's imploding economy and spooked by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. "If Eastern Europe's crowds and intellectuals and trade union leaders 'won the third world war' it is, quite simply, because Mikhail Gorbachev let them," Judt writes...
Bill Nye the Science Guy has inspired lots of middle schoolers to take apart their clock radios. It turns out the PBS host has also inspired a couple of TV executives to try an experiment. The CBS drama Numb3rs, which stars Rob Morrow as an FBI agent and David Krumholtz as his crime-fighting mathematician brother, was sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star...
...next James Bond; Ciaran Hinds as his opposite, a meticulous cleanup artist; Mathieu Kassovitz as a toymaker who dabbles in bombmaking; and Hanns Zischler as an expert document forger. None of them have particularly accommodating natures, but the stress of living under constant danger becomes their bonding agent. The cast too came from all over the globe, including Israel and other parts of the Middle East. "It was like going to the U.N. every day," says Bana, an Australian. "There was always plenty of rich social and political discussion, no doubt about...
...Aeon Flux,”—a science-fiction movie based on Peter Chung’s early ’90’s MTV series—is a marked departure. The movie chronicles the action-packed struggle of the sexy, leather-clad secret agent Aeon Flux as she works to fracture the warped state of Bregna...