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...generous about sharing his methods. He begins by obtaining a hoagie roll, and then toasting it using an actual toaster oven rather than the toasting conveyer. “Point of fact,” he explains, “this doesn’t work in the conveyor because the bun gets caught...
...along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes out of that building--off limits to the public--carrying what looks a lot like the same coal back across the road...
...other hand, DHL Worldwide Express, which handles 160 million packages a year, plans to go global soon with RFID tracking. Earlier this year DHL's RFID program manager Trevor Peirce stood next to a conveyor belt at its Helsinki gateway, watching computerized RFID scanners identify packages inside passing cargo containers at the rate of 300 items per second. "This is amazing technology when you see it working, and it's all fine-tuned," says Peirce. For customers, the payoff is later posting times and earlier deliveries, says the company's CIO, Steve Bandrowczak. "RFID clearly can help customers by reducing...
...list are still full of last big things I never got around to--The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)--and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff. For the average person with an actual productive job, keeping up with this conveyor belt of novelty must seem like grueling, poorly paid work...
...passed this unimaginable trial by water better than Fogle. In the first chaotic minutes, he picked up Dennis Hall, who had fallen into the swift-running current, and threw him to the safety of a raised conveyor belt. "He saved my life right there," says Hall. Later, Fogle risked his own life driving a coal scooper into a cataract to rescue miner Mark Popernack, who was stranded on the other side. It is Fogle who is acknowledged to have kept his crew focused, adamantly refusing to let them give in to despair. If anyone epitomized their fierce solidarity, which Pennsylvania...