Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will argue that there are three essential pieces of gardening equipment: expendable shoes, impenetrable gloves and a deep sense of humility at the chance to act as God's hands. Absent from that list: a pair of $585 leather-handled rose shears from Hermes; a $1,995 vip Robotic Solar Mower that cuts the lawn while you watch from a $595 replica of the benches at Giverny; and a Poopet, a lump of cow manure sculpted by the Pennsylvania Amish into "functional fecal friends" that will "nurture and decorate your garden for years to come." These are available in many...
...speeds of up to 300 miles per sec. and with enough force to propel them trillions of miles into deep space. One of the pictures is a surprisingly clear portrait of a fast-spinning, disk-shaped cloud of cosmic debris that may serve as the raw material for a solar system in eons to come. Says astronomer Chris Burrows at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland: "It sends shivers down my spine when I realize what we're looking...
...circulated self-congratulatory buttons that read KEEPING PROMISES. Ten House subcommittees slashed some $17.5 billion from domestic and foreign programs. Among the victims: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which could lose $47 million from next year's $305 million budget, and the Energy Department, with $80 million trimmed from solar-energy and environmental-cleanup projects. The G.O.P. lawmakers also presented a plan, which outraged Democrats, to take $2 billion from day care, school lunches and other long-standing social-welfare initiatives and convert the money to block grants for states to set up their own programs. Aiming at perhaps...
...food stores are erupting with radio and infrared data bursts that track pricing changes, inventory and customer buying patterns. Battery-powered shelf labels that receive instant price changes via radio transmitter are currently used in 25 Edwards Super Food Stores in Connecticut; more than 40 European stores employ a solar-powered version that receives pricing data via infrared. Several large food retail operators are exploring the use of ``smart cards'' and interactive kiosks to provide shoppers with information and keep track of the buying habits of their regular customers, using the information to adjust inventories and to price and promote...
Michael D. Hartl '96 works term-time in an X-ray solar astronomy group at the center. Though Hartl does not receive course credit for the job, he says he loves the "friendly community" atmosphere at the center and its proximity to the Quad where he lives...