Word: mowers
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Technology occasionally does bring genuine improvements. Tetracycline and Thorazine heal the sick. The rotary lawn mower doesn't get stuck on twigs. The VCR makes it possible for working people who are not insomniacs to look at movies that are shown only at 3 a.m. Does anyone remember that you once had to bend over and give a violent turn to a hand crank before a car would start...
...Dorm: Mower...
...students of English gardening will know, that's a man-made landscape feature, a trench dug to conceal a fence in order to preserve the view. The nuns have one on the grounds of their convent, which Howie loves to approach at perilous speeds on his tractor mower. We go right to the edge with him, and even if we're not always laughing, we're glad to be along for the ride...
After a slow start, Clemens works his way into a canvassing groove. “Keep up the good work,” a mustachioed man in a baseball cap shouts above the roar of his lawn mower when he catches glimpse of Clemens’ pro-Bush literature. And Clemens scores—in his words—“a warm, motherly hug” from a middle-aged Republican woman. “I love this neighborhood, and it loves us back,” Clemens says...
...People always look for the straightest, clearest path, so that's what we map to the robot," she says. The early result is SmartNav, a rover the size of a lawn mower that is controlled by a neural network capable of distinguishing sand, concrete and gravel. On Mars, such networks could keep rovers exploring rather than waiting for instructions...