Word: lasering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...souvenir stands was a T shirt that read INVENTED BY MAN, PERFECTED BY WOMAN. "This is phenomenal," said a woman who drove 65 miles from South Carolina to bring her daughter to the game. "My daughter thinks I'm the best mama in the world." Following the laser lights and loud music required of every N.B.A. pregame show, the announcer thundered, "O.K., Charlotte, We Got Next...
...obstacle or over a cliff. The car thus moves excruciatingly slowly--just 2 ft. per minute--reducing the likelihood that it will stumble into trouble. Built-in gyroscopes serve as a sort of on-board vestibular system, helping the rover feel for bumps and potholes; a tracery of five laser beams helps it feel for obstructions. In addition, when Sojourner ventures out it will transmit a regular, pulselike signal back to the lander, which will serve as a sort of vehicular EKG, constantly confirming that all is well...
...Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated by scrawny cattle and dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility...
...NETRC, however, Harvard looked primed for a national run. The A Division duo of seniors Brett Davis and Katy Hartwell, along with junior Dan Parkes and Molly Merril in the B Division helped Harvard nab third place. In addition, senior Ben Richardson took care of the single-handed Laser Division while sophomore Brian Fox was the heavy air crew...
Osterberg said he thought the survey failed to ask about issues which have a greater impact on Internet use for educational purposes, such as the percentage of students connected to the network, and the computing support, online software packages, labs and networked laser printing available...