Word: obey
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What distinguishes the latest crop of robots from their strictly mechanical forebears is their ability to react to their environment (rather than dumbly obey the whims of their five-year-old masters). For example, Hasbro's B.I.O. Bugs send out radio and infrared signals to sense who or what is in the room. If it's a predator, the bug might decide to fight, gaining strength with each match it wins. Touch its antenna, and it will scurry away to flock with other bugs. "You can train them, but you can't tame them," says creator Richard Yanofsky, who claims...
...Wishes she weren't a flat screen b) Promised "to love, honor and obey" it c) Wooed it by deftly using the remote d) Is keeping one eye on his tomcattin...
...Douglas W. Sears '69, president of Inter-Club Council, the body responsible for overseeing Harvard's final clubs, says he thinks all clubs operate according to a 1984 agreement compelling clubs to obey all Massachusetts state laws regarding alcohol use and requiring that safe, sober transportation must always be provided for students at off-campus events where alcohol is served...
...uncooperative and failed to obey officers' commands," said Sergeant Robert Kotowski, who participated in the arrest...
...joke I had missed the last time, and "The Simpsons" earns a fresh laugh. Not until I had taken a few months of physics did I get Homer's joke: "Lisa built me this perpetual motion machine--it just keeps getting faster and faster...LISA! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics...