Word: dryer
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...cover it with loose papers and my jacket. Third, I could take my laptop into the bathroom and try not to drop it. Yet, should I not have a fourth option? Should I not be able to leave my laptop open, leisurely stroll to the bathroom, use the hand dryer twice, check e-mail on the way back and not worry about my laptop mysteriously disappearing from the desk...
...poll watchers in the small Georgia town of Dallas had a problem. The weather was humid and rainy. Now their vote-counting machine was rejecting thousands of punch-card ballots because the cardboard had warped in the damp night air. What to do? Break out the blow-dryers! "As weird as it sounds, it's standard procedure," says Fran Watson, election superintendent for Paulding County, where Dallas is located. "We blow a hair dryer over them, and then they'll go through...
Nine-year-old Phylicia Dryer wants to be a pop star. Growing up in a music industry that has no qualms about the ethics of exploiting the very young, Phylicia's dreams of becoming the next Britney Spears may only be a hop, skip and breast implant away. As the youngest member of BreZe, a pre-teen pop-music foursome dubbed the Spice Babies (their combined age is 41), Phylicia already has Bill Kimber (who discovered Eurythmics) as her manager, as well as a share of a $1.5 million contract with Warner Brothers. She's tipped to be the biggest...
Together, youngsters like Dryer and Carter represent the growing movement of tweenie pop music that has begun to creep up through the ranks of singles charts across the world. Comfortably situated in the competitive world of late-'90s pop music, pre-teen pop seeks to satisfy the multitudes of braces wearing, Pokmon card-hoarding kiddies for whom the Backstreet Boys and Britney are just not enough...
Invasions of settlers can help make conditions even dryer. Land burned and cleared by farmers releases less water to the skies than forest does. Moreover, smoke inhibits rainfall by saturating the air with vast numbers of tiny particles, each of which can become the center of a water droplet. But the droplets remain tiny, and do not become heavy enough to fall to the ground, according to a study conducted by David Rosenfeld at Jerusalem University in Israel...