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...products we really need - gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel. Refining is a simple but essential step in getting from oil in the ground to gas in your car's fuel tank. Oil's various refined products, such as gasoline, kerosene and diesel, have different boiling points. The lighter the chemical composition of the desired product, the lower the temperature needed to separate it from the crude. It's not cheap; refining costs account for nearly 19% of the price of gas sold in Britain. Today's refineries are so efficient that they can extract 44.6 gallons of refined petroleum...
...result is something that looks less like a music player than like the remote control for a music player. The Nano is thinner than a pencil and lighter than two bucks in quarters. It's one-fifth the size of the original iPod that Apple introduced four years ago. It has 4 GB of memory, enough to hold 1,000 songs, and it displays album art and photographs. And as small as it is, the Nano's got some audio oomph: this mouse can roar...
IMATION MICRO HARD DRIVE About the size of a Zippo lighter, this device provides as much as 2 GB of storage in a tiny package...
...about a year. Not only do I love the convenience, but I also think they make it safer to talk on the phone while driving a car. Until recently, the simplest and lightest headset I used was Motorola's HS820, but now a number of even smaller and lighter headsets are hitting the market, from Motorola, Jabra and Plantronics. The Plantronics Discovery 640 is not just a tiny, easy to use headset-it comes with a Lego lover's delight of snap-on accessories...
...officer went to investigate reports of a person using a cigarette lighter to defile a sign at the Kennedy School of Government. The officer searched the person and subsequently confiscated a small amount of a dry, leafy substance...