Word: graveled
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...Native Son Lee Peterson, 21, drives a gravel truck for a Katherine-based road maintenance crew. He knows the Wanda Inn well - his grandmother used to own the place, and as a child he spent school holidays here playing or working for pocket money. Currently resealing the road just north of "Toppy," Peterson and his crew - who include his sister and his father-in-law - doss down in a trailer-mounted bunkhouse in the roadhouse's forecourt. "We always stop for a few days if we come through here," he says. "It is like an oasis in the desert...
...People always look for the straightest, clearest path, so that's what we map to the robot," she says. The early result is SmartNav, a rover the size of a lawn mower that is controlled by a neural network capable of distinguishing sand, concrete and gravel. On Mars, such networks could keep rovers exploring rather than waiting for instructions...
...Year. Hale, a senior from Seattle, played spectacular centerfield defense the entire year, making the most difficult plays appear easy; the most strenuous, merely graceful. His two highlight-reel catches against Brown on April 25—the last of which, a dive on the warning track gravel, inspired Walsh to praise his “fearlessness”—energized the team for the stretch...
...Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 of the mousy Mrs. Elvsted was an impressive escalation from uncertainty through fear to panic and served as an excellent foil for Hedda’s ruthlessness. Jess R. Burkle ’06 as Judge Brack was the epitome of gravel-voiced sleaze, and the occasions on which he allowed the audience glimpses of his inner comedian highlighted the subtle but crucial thread of humor in the play. Megan E.M. Low ’04 as George Tessman’s devoted aunt cast a perspectivally crucial light of prim conventional opinion...
...intensive lead and zinc mining are the "lead heads," or "chat rats," as the kids who grew up around here are known. As toddlers, they played in sandboxes of chat--the powdery output of mills after ore is extracted from rock. As preteens, they rode their bikes across the gravel mounds and swam in lime-green sinkholes. Their parents used mine tailings to make driveways and foundations, never thinking that contaminated dust might blow through the heating ducts of their ranch houses. In the past decade, studies have shown that up to 38% of local children have had high levels...