Word: drill
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...replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
John Weinstein does an adequate job directing but too often slips into cliched staging. This has particularly disastrous results in the several crowd scenes, some of which bear a striking resemblence to a drill team performance. There are some nice touches--the death of the cow is cute and the knife-wielding Little Red Riding Hood is funny--but too often the actors seem to have been left to fend for themselves...
Geologists hope to drill into the ocean floorsoon to plant seismographs whose measurements willnot be affected by poor conduction in water...
Homo tyrolensis, as some scientists have dubbed him, also had a leather pouch resembling a small version of the "fanny packs" worn by tourists today. Inside he carried a sharpened piece of bone, probably used to make sewing holes in leather, and a flint-stone drill and blade. A sloeberry, probably his snack food, was found at the site, along with two mushrooms strung on a knotted leather cord. The mushrooms have infection-fighting properties and may have been part of the world's oldest-known first-aid kit. The only decorative item, possibly a talisman, was a small, doughnut...
...LOOKING TO BUY A CRAFTSMAN POWER DRILL? While you're at it, why not bring home a mortgage and a couple of shares of AT&T? As unlikely a shopping trip as that might seem, it was the scenario on which Sears, Roebuck & Co. built its 1980s growth strategy to turn the nation's prototype "Big Store" into one of the largest retail companies on earth. A decade later, the retailer's executives at the landmark Sears Tower corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago have admitted defeat. In one of the most painful setbacks in its 106- year history, Sears announced...