Word: hairnet
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...production line last year, and a new $1.6 million automated packaging machine is due to be installed this year. The number of people needed to staff the round-the-clock operation has been cut to 28 from 60. Jobson patrols the factory floor in his white coat and hairnet, soliciting ways to improve production. Nestle sent a manufacturing SWAT team to help last year. That resulted in a raft of small production-line improvements, including redesigning the levers that dab glue on the wrappers and reprocessing wasted sugar rather than feeding it to York's pigs--tiny changes but ones...
...Hall, a sort of chamber of commerce building and exhibition hall in 1945. The remains stand just outside the point of the park, across the Aioi Bridge. This shell is Hiroshima's Eiffel Tower, its Statue of Liberty. Where the dome rose, only the supporting beams remain, a giant hairnet capping four floors of vacant gray walls, much of their outer skin peeled away, exposing patches of brick. The interior floors are also gone, making the entire structure an accidental atrium. A front doorway leads to nowhere. A metal spiral staircase ascends to nothing. A pillar lies on its side...
Sheri Schellhaass is a scientist whose version of the Petri dish is a plastic tray displaying Galaxy Blast Fruit Roll-Ups. And she's a foodie, a culinary whiz, in fact, who prefers egg-salad sandwiches for lunch and wears a hairnet at work. If you're part of the foie gras set, stop reading. But if you want yogurt on a stick, you gotta meet...
Watching is one thing, but what about having a vicarious sensory and kinesthetic experience of your favorite sport? Within the next 50 years, neural-input units will become as standard a feature of your entertainment console as the remote control. With this hairnet-like apparatus sending complex algorithmic signals into your motor cortex and parietal lobe, you'll actually feel what it's like to be slashed across the eyes by a high-sticking Tie Domi. Seated on your couch, you'll writhe in agony from lactic-acid accumulation at the end of an Ironman Triathlon...