Word: mowers
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Here's how the Slugbot works: a lawn mower-size machine with a long arm shines red light on the ground to identify a shiny, sluglike object, then analyzes its shape. When it finds a slug, it picks it up and drops it in a hopper. Bacteria inside the robot eat the slimy critters--a process that releases electrons that can be captured and, in theory, keep the bot's batteries perpetually charged...
...memorable sequence starts out with, "I like mowing the lawn." Several panels go by with just "RRRR" as he pushes the mower. Then just as suddenly for us as for him, a thought: "I see now that I create my own unhappiness." A dog looks at us through the front window. "The things that happen to me aren't in themselves good or bad..." The dog leaves. "It's the way I react to them that makes them good or bad..." A moment of astonishing clarity for a boy and for book, told in the simplest context, where it stands...
...caller reported that he had seen two students enter Mower Hall with a sign taken from a Harvard Square store. The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) located the sign in a dorm room. The room's residents said that they had found the sign and had taken it for safekeeping. (10/25...
...brothers often watched their father work on his car and make repairs around the house. The boys built their own toys, turning bamboo tubes into pressurized chinaberry shooters and transplanting a lawn-mower motor onto a go-cart. Once, Johnson caused an explosion in his mother's kitchen while mixing, of all things, rocket fuel. He had got the recipe from a library book, using saltpeter and sugar. As it cooked on the stove, the mixture bubbled to the surface, filling the kitchen with so much smoke that young Lonnie couldn't see his hands, and burned a chair...
...caller reported that he had seen two students enter Mower Hall with a sign taken from a Harvard Square store. The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) located the sign in a dorm room. The room's residents said that they had found the sign and had taken it for safekeeping...