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...size of a grain of rice that detects and records things like temperature and motion at its location. Attach it to a battery the size of an aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes (or to a base station connected to a PC) within 100 feet or so. With a single network of 10,000 motes, the upper limit, you could cover...
...score runs faster and instilling a relentlessly savage will to win. He led Australia to a one-day World Cup trophy, a record 16 consecutive test victories and won almost three out of every four tests in which he was captain. When Waugh hung up his beloved baggy green cap last week after helping his team to a characteristically gutsy draw against India, cricket lovers around the world knew something special was finally over...
Also, staying at 11 teams would cut the number of ECAC games to 20, freeing up two regular-season dates for Harvard and other Ivy League schools under the 29-game Ivy cap...
Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni boiled over. He leaned over the edge of the bench and began pounding the dasher, near the advertisement for Schenectady’s web site. During his impromptu act on the board-bongos, the cap on his ballpoint pen flew onto the ice—a casualty of his frustration...
...have put forward a realistic and responsible plan to get our fiscal house in order: ask those at the top and big corporations to pay more of their fair share, cap discretionary spending at the rate of inflation, return to pay-as-you-go budgeting, eliminate wasteful duplication in our bureaucracy, crack down on corporate welfare and phase in new spending as we can afford...