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...start in the Engineering Department; his junior project offered a 1984-ish solution for office building security. It proposed connecting a booth to a building's entrance. The entrance would be password-protected and impenetrable until the booth's door was secured. The chamber's claustrophobic scale would deter all but the most diminutive of piggybackers. The next year, Schumann constructed an electric bicycle. Although he was unable to market it as he had hoped, it did take him--literally and figuratively--to his job at Ford Motor Company...
...start in the Engineering Department; his junior project offered a 1984-ish solution for office building security. It proposed connecting a booth to a building's entrance. The entrance would be password-protected and impenetrable until the booth's door was secured. The chamber's claustrophobic scale would deter all but the most diminutive of piggybackers. The next year, Schumann constructed an electric bicycle. Although he was unable to market it as he had hoped, it did take him--literally and figuratively--to his job at Ford Motor Company...
...teammates in tote" arrived to devour many of the 800 tacos. Although Feng remembers that "lots of tacos did mean lots of love," he confides to FM that Leverett's next Taco Bell study break may be an invitation-only "black-tie burrito bash;" hopefully the attire would deter eaters from using their tee-shirts as doggy bags and scooping food on the way back to their own Houses. It seems he'd prefer love from Leverites...
Practically speaking, the bill makes little sense. Not only are violent crime rates in Massachusetts much lower than in those states which enforce the death penalty, but they have been declining rapidly in recent years. Thus capital punishment isn't necessary to deter crime, as Cellucci claims. The solution to lowering crime rates is to stop crimes before they are committed--through a well-trained and well-equipped police force--rather than execute those already convicted. To put it bluntly, the Commonwealth is doing fine without the death penalty...
Some may call her foolish, Solano says, but shedoesn't want a police visit to deter customersfrom browsing...