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...Automation is trying out its first new Pragma A-3000. The $110,000 robot, which has just been licensed by General Electric, is assembling a compressor valve unit from twelve separate parts. Its two arms can do totally different jobs at once. When it picks up a slightly defective gasket in its gray steel claw, it immediately senses something wrong, flicks the gasket to one side and picks up another. The Pragma produces 320 units an hour, without mistakes, and it can labor tirelessly for 24 hours a day. That makes it roughly the equivalent of ten human workers. Furthermore...
...name because he felt compelled to pick up the tab. Once, though, before a 1977 Hawaii tour, Nichopoulos wrote ten prescriptions (550 tablets) for himself, then gave the drugs to Presley. Said Dr. Nick: "I felt if I charged him for the medication, his father would blow a gasket." - Nichopoulos, who said he acted like a brother, father and counselor to his patient, occasionally tried to placate Presley with placebos. But the singer, who kept his own medical reference books, was apparently too shrewd for these ploys. After he confided what he had done, Dr. Nick said, Presley replied that...
...three days, Shepherd has been haunting the A & A, awaiting the arrival, by Greyhound bus from Salt Lake City, of a part for his brown Triumph sports car. The Triumph suffered a blown head gasket after pulling a U-Haul trailer up one mountain grade too many. Shepherd wears his hair long, sports a scraggly beard, an earring in his left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they...
...misused. This is not exactly new. J. In fact, guess what? Nuclear physics can be harmful without distortion. You don't even have to misinterpret physical science to build a thermo-nuclear bomb. And the same for recombinant DNA research. When the neoplague starts leaking through that faculty gasket in the p-3 facility, it won't be distored theory that's at fault...
...bills. Save on air conditioning this summer putting shades or blinds on windows that face the sun. Save on water heating by fixing leaky hot-water faucets and by draining heat-robbing sediment from the bottom of the water heater every month. Replace the refrigerator's neoprene door gasket if, when you close it on a piece of paper, it is so loose that you can pull the paper out. Use saucepans that cover an entire burner and use only a few ounces of water to heat vegetables. Total potential savings in an energy-efficient household: $300 a year...