Word: mop
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...away in office drawers so they wouldn't lose their jobs or be transferred to lower-paying positions. They told of seeing an orange cloud surrounding a building following an accident; of routine radioactive material spills where everyone would "bail" from a building and then have to return to mop things up. They told of 55-gallon drums of vile materials exploding and an individual who single-handedly entered a room wearing just a face mask to turn off a valve where radioactive material was spewing forth, suffering burns on both of his arms...
...Zombie signature. "I wanted Michael to have long hair so you could never quite see him," explains Zombie, whose own long locks also serve as a convenient privacy shield when he's squinting into a monitor. The film's hair stylist does look dangerously over-worked. Besides Mane's mop, she's also got to groom Faerch, who wears a 70s shag, and conceal Danny Trejo's ponytail, as he acts against thuggish type as a sensitive, short-haired security guard. "I'm super nitpicky about wigs," Zombie admits...
...This $1,000 widget takes the Roomba one step further. The 18-pound UBot behemoth not only vacuums and sweeps, but it wet mops your floors as well. If you're a diehard robo-fan, you can set up special flooring with invisible barcodes that the UBot reads to determine how best to mop. Future models will clean carpets as well, and might even clean out your wallet...
...life's work to document allegations of executions, disappearances, rapes and torture in Chechnya. "Mass-scale human-rights violations and state-level terror still are the order of the day," she says. Several times she worked with the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose "murder sent a signal to mop up 'undesirable elements' and tell the public, 'We don't give a damn what you think.'" Violence, Yusupova believes, has its own logic. "Everyone now is endangered, not only those who live in Chechnya, but those who live in Russia as well." Yet she's sure there will be a backlash. "Society...
...First items on my shopping list: light bulbs, and a mop. The small, dusty general store at which I began my quest had no mops or screw-in bulbs, although it did have bayonet-style bulbs for anyone with the appropriate fittings. I found the bulbs I needed at a specialist lighting shop across the road. At a second general store a few minutes walk away I found a mop. Actually, the mop came in two parts: a long wooden handle and the mop end. But the two pieces didn't match each other, so the shop owner found...