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Where would you rather have sex: on the sculpture across from Lamont Library or on the conveyor belt in the Union dishroom? On the conveyor belt. I'd like that. Other people would be coming in, and they'd be pouring out their glasses, and you could pour that all over each other. you know when you drink your orange juice, you get to the bottom, and there's always that slimy pulp that you leave? That stuff, that would be pretty...
...India was 1,000 miles or more away from where the Chicxulub antipode was 65 million years ago. And the location antipodal to the Deccan Traps at the time of their formation is now on the floor of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Because the ocean floor moves like a conveyor belt, rising to form ridges and diving back into the earth in a process called subduction, Hagstrum says, "half of the ocean floor has since disappeared" and evidence of an antipodal impact "would be on that half...
...like to destroy three myths about education and learning that Harvard puts into the minds of its students. If you know that these supposed truths are merely myths, you may still have a fighting chance when the liberals lift you up and put you on the conveyor belt that leads into their factory. You may still emerge from Harvard with your conscience intact...
This time, as before, the problem lay beneath the airport's terrazzo floors, amid the underground warren of computers, conveyor belts, wires and thousands of motors that make up the airport's Disneyesque baggage system. As designed, 4,000 computer-guided fiber-glass carts, each carrying a single suitcase, will roll along 22 miles of serpentine steel tracks, delivering 60,000 bags an hour to and from dozens of distant gates and carrousels. The system employs electromagnetic motors attached to the tracks to power the carts, which are routed and monitored by banks of logic controllers, sensors and photocells...
...Cambridge. "So they'd call me and saystreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and say'We're up at the packing house in Lynn.' So I'd goup in my car and watch this big trailer truckunloading all this horse meat--big barrels ofstuff rolling down the conveyor belt--and a coupleof small boxes marked 'Faculty Club...