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...Family Studio, packed with a whole line of fancy accessories like the Personal Valet, an appliance that simulates dry cleaning by misting a water-based solution on clothes to remove odors and wrinkles; a cabinet that circulates warm air to dry delicates; and a sink with three microjets that mimic a hand-washing motion. The Family Studio can cost $5,000, or more than five times as much as a plain-vanilla washer-dryer set. "The bottom line is that the average person spends 400 hours a year doing laundry, and we can offer some tools to make it easier...
...study that led to their conclusion, Liston and Kagan ran experiments on three age groups—nine-, 17- and 24-month-old children—that tested the child’s ability to mimic new but easily imitated actions like placing a towel in a trash can or wheeling a toy truck across the floor...
...lurked in the distance waiting for the crowds to dissipate, we witnessed the lewd acts that the presence of the sculpture inspired in our peers. There were the typical photos taken of climbers, huggers and lickers, and one young man went so far as to disrobe and mimic a sexual act against the statue as his friends snapped pictures. There were no two ways about it: the display...
...widely reported that damage to the left wing was visible in the picture, but the resolution turned out to be too poor to reveal anything conclusive. The agency was hopeful that the videotapes might yield more, but skeptics cautioned that even during routine re-entries, bursts of plasma can mimic the appearance of debris...
...think there is a good chance for moderate change,” says Zeckhauser, who predicts, for example, that more colleges will mimic Yale and Stanford’s recent switch...