Word: piped
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...parents regarded him as falling further behind. After hiring a therapist to observe Luke at school, the Perkinses learned that he was spending a lot of time throwing fits on the floor or hiding under a table. "His behavior was so out of control that education was simply a pipe dream," Jeff says...
...come with flushing instructions on the wall. But Phillips admitted there may be a gray area between solid and liquid waste. “What happens with the 1.1 gallons—it tends to displace the contents of the bowl rather than force the contents down the waste-pipe,” Phillips said. “You might be able to get away with a small amount of toilet paper. If you think about women who are going to use it, it will probably take care of that small amount of toilet paper.” Student reaction...
...means that an interesting course must wait another year to be taken. For professors, the note indicates time away from the classroom—but not from work. “One image of a male professor on sabbatical is a bearded fellow sitting on his deck, puffing his pipe in relaxed contemplation,” said Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology J. Richard Hackman. “That’s not me.” His leave thus far has been “devoted almost entirely to completing writing obligations that range from...
...have in common is that they report in, wirelessly, to a gateway that tracks everything and posts it on a secure website for you. A glance at your iControl Summary page tells you that the sensors are normal and working. If you have a freeze or a burst pipe, the system immediately sends you an e-mail, and of course registers the problem on the Web page. A chart of "recent alarms" also keeps track of when the door and motion sensors were last triggered...
...were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into each of these boxes was [methane gas from] cow dung. A pit next to the box and the most basic bio-digester you've ever seen... the pipe comes out of it and into our engine, and it made electricity. And since the power was made locally, we had no transmission lines, and we had no infrastructure issues. And it created in each village three entrepreneurs. It not only wasn't sapping an economy, it was creating...