Word: caps
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Price: You need caps on all your chimneys, it’s kind of like a screen. Otherwise this could happen all the time and female raccoons will come and have babies in chimneys. You really need to get a cap...
...Hamid Karzai might be getting mixed political reviews from his countrymen, but during the Afghan leader's recent visit to the West his fashion sense won him raves. Here's the lowdown on his layers: 1. Karakul cap: a nod to the people of northern Afghanistan. 2. Chapan: the silk robe is an aristocratic tradition. 3. Western jacket: a symbol of East-West unity. 4. Piran-tunban: a tunic-and-trousers combo worn by southern Afghans. 'With his dress,' says Akbar Ahmed, professor of Islamic studies at American University, Washington, D.C., 'he wants to revive the best of Afghan culture...
...this woman's real name; she wishes to remain anonymous) can see again thanks to an electrode implanted around her right optic nerve. The electrode is connected to a stimulator installed in a small depression carved from the inside of her skull. A video camera, worn on a cap, transmits images in the form of radio signals to the stimulator, which converts these signals into electrical impulses and sends them along Marie's optic nerve. The optic nerve ferries the signals to Marie's visual cortex, where they are reassembled into an image: in this case, a collection...
These devices are permanently implanted inside Marie's skull, but to use them she must travel to a small room at the University of Louvain and don what looks like a badly damaged 1960s bathing cap. The cap is made of plastic and has a standard video camera affixed to its front. To use the MIVIP, Marie sits in front of a large white screen on which an alphabet of about 50 different line configurations is projected...
After falling behind 44-34 going into the break, the Crimson’s shots began to fall in the second half. With 15:06 remaining in the game, Harvey stole the ball from Yale sophomore guard Matt Minoff and drained a jumper to cap a 15-6 run and pull Harvard within...