Word: pilings
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...special Clorox cleaning solution onto the floor, scrubs the surface with a brush and then uses a "squeegee-vac" to suck up the dirty water. Like Roomba, Scooba works around obstacles and has "cliff" sensors that prevent it from falling down stairs. Different sensors keep Scooba off your high-pile carpet. Next: Up and Away...
...that office again, this time under a pile of paperwork and with precious weeks to do months worth of recruiting, the man with the answers had to ask a question...
...landscape of Fallujah today isn't encouraging. Some rebuilding is taking place, and three-quarters of the houses have been reconnected to the electrical grid. But neighborhoods in the northeast and southeast--the two main entry points for last year's invasion--are filled with rubble piles and buildings whose top stories have been blasted off. For every reconstruction project, there is a pile of cinder blocks where a house used to be. The military has closed the city to the outside world, allowing people in only after they show ID cards that they are residents of Fallujah. The Marines...
...with Claire Danes and her supernaturally perfect hair? Jason Schwartzman (“I Heart Huckabees”), period? Going. My admiration for the trailer made me forget that my family’s book version of “Shopgirl” ended up on the charity sale pile, after nobody in the house could muster the interest to finish it. No one was quite sure what exactly was wrong with it, but somehow it was a little too off to hold our interest for the whole 130 pages. The movie has the same problems. It?...
...learn about the culture of an organization from the stories its members tell. One of the Coast Guard's most celebrated rescues was of the crew of the doomed oil tanker the Pendleton in 1952 off Massachusetts. In 60-ft. seas, during a snowstorm, Coast Guard officers managed to pile all 32 survivors onto a 36-ft. wooden lifeboat moments before the tanker capsized. But when the coxswain radioed his superiors for further direction, his commanders argued over the radio waves about what to do next. Instead of wasting precious time, the coxswain switched off the radio and made...