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...picture and what the world needs" and turns his ideas over to his 150-person, highly trained work force, which designs and creates electronic and mechanical devices, largely for government agencies and industry. Some of his initial creative work is done at home, with "crude tools and some duct tape and vises and hacksaws" bought at the local hardware store. "I build things myself," he says, "and if they work, then they get into the company. If they don't work, then that's my tough luck...
...shot of Al Gore in duct-taped glasses...
...woke up [on my birthday] and I had been duct taped to my bed. They were taking pictures...
Inside the crawl space, Brennan also found dryer lint clinging to the walls. "There's a lot of moisture dumping in here from the dryer too," he says. "And we've got some rodent poop by these holes around this ventilation duct." Mice can pass through a 3/8-in. hole, he says, and "they will come back to the house from two miles away if you don't kill them." Brennan used to be more casual about mice before 1993, when the Hanta virus, traced to mouse urine, killed 19 people in New Mexico. "They started finding it in New York...
Eight were chained together by devices called "sleeping dragons," two-foot long lengths of PVC pipe covered with a thick layer of duct tape. Inside each tube was a bolt and chain which locked protesters' wrist together inside the pipe...