Word: cowing
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Technology may soon revolutionize U.S. attempts to patrol the flow of people, drugs and guns across its 1,900-mile border with Mexico. The sensors employed by the Border Patrol tend to be tripped off by every passing cow and coyote. Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is developing a sophisticated new array of sensors that can transmit photographs of a trespasser to a central monitoring station, indicate direction and speed of movement, and also measure the presence of metal, a signal that the target is armed...
...first image that comes to mind is a man, or perhaps two or three, huddled over an engine, pointing to the hoses and speaking in muted voices about the carburetor. Driving on the most forlorn and deserted road, interrupted only once every few minutes by a farmhouse or cow grazing, I pass a sign proclaiming, "Dave's Auto Welding shop." Dave, like his neighbors, has worked on cars all his life...
...poplar trees are releasing blizzards of fluffy white seeds, a visitor comes across horse carts in which families dressed in Sunday finery are headed for a nearby town. Chickens roam in farmyards; geese strut around small ponds. Since fields are unfenced and holdings rarely more than 20 acres, cows are tethered. Twice a day the farmer's wife will put a stool down next to the cow and milk by hand. Because Poland was the least collectivized of the bloc countries, it has a particularly picturesque countryside, including forests where edible mushrooms are avidly gathered in late autumn...
...important that the tutorials be very rigorous. The Core has been such a sacred cow that we have really not been asking...what the impact of the Core has been on course offerings," Ozment says...
Forbes' most successful piece is "Cow with Tree in Mask." The lively brush strokes and the great depth of color in the tree's foliage make part of the painting commendable. But the picture is weakened by the unrelenting blackness of the mask, which destroys the harmony between sensuous lines and color...