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...where most likely my job will not be to flaunt my abs in Vegas’s hottest night spot. But where will I be when I once again have cause to stick my turkey with candles? Of course, I have no idea. Most likely my own little rug rodents won’t be old enough to appreciate the subtle humor that is malicious deception and dream crushing. I’ll be older, but most likely I will not look back on my college years and wonder how my life would have been different if I were...
...close your eyes, fire a squirt gun around the room and listen carefully, you'll hear a different noise depending on what was hit (wall, rug, sleeping cat). That's the principle behind ELADIN, the newest idea in mine detection. By shooting water into a minefield and monitoring sounds, the system can detect and disarm explosives without setting them off. There's certainly no shortage of targets: tens of millions of mines lie buried in war zones around the world. INVENTOR David Summers AVAILABILITY Prototype only TO LEARN MORE eladin.umr.edu
...Byrnes could be in the backfield as well. But since Harvard surprised the Quakers in last year’s historic contest by pounding them with the run, don’t be surprised if the guy who cut his teeth on the JV squad ends up cutting a rug on the Franklin Field turf in the biggest game of the year...
...Thompson Room is large, with a high ceiling. It is cloaked in portraits, and the rug is thick and colorful. Many of the wooden wall panels are carved with the names of famous and familiar alumni—Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow, Adams… There is a towering grandfather clock in one corner, a statue of Kronos in another. Most noticeable is the furniture, which has always reminded me of Dr. Seuss illustrations with its curvy playfulness. The exceedingly comfortable chairs and couches vary in color and shape, but most are rounded and velvety, oddly proportioned and/or large enough...
...declared as he signed the Iraq resolution. Or put another way, all those credulous Clinton folks who cut deals with North Korea to stall its nuclear program, who tossed some bombs on Iraq and walked away, merely postponed the inevitable while making things worse. What was swept under the rug, the hawks say, we are now pulling out and confronting, with an ounce of prevention if possible, a pound of cure if we must...