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Radio technology and medical know-how came together most dramatically in April 2000. Pirates had boarded the sailboat of a Dutch family off the coast of Honduras and had shot a 13-year-old boy who was aboard. His injuries were so severe that the bullet severed his spinal cord and paralyzed...
Your commencement-speaker payment will be refunded only if a) an official head count after the first 30 minutes of the address shows that 50% or more of the audience has left; b) six or more vegetables have landed on the podium; or c) the microphone cord has been severed...
...play progresses, however, the set evolves. During the Act IV prologue delivered by Time (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Peter K. Saval), Saval pulls a cord dangling at the front of stage left to release the overhead sheet, emphasizing how the 16 couplets mark the passage of 16 years. This fabric, the backdrop for the rest of the play, is painted in various shades of green to evoke the forest of Bohemia, the land to which the action now shifts...
...that a third party may need to be brought in: “If their ‘solution’ is to put a spotlight in the yard so they can display their quite enormous flag, there may be safety issues involved in stringing a live extension cord across a student walkway, especially in inclement weather, but this is not my domain...
...anyone hauling around spare AAs and an emergency power cord, it's obvious that energy-storage technology needs a rethink. Fortunately, one is under way. Within the next 18 months, consumer electronics manufacturers, including Casio and Sony, plan to start marketing personal portable devices powered not by batteries but by fuel cells...