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With time to spare in the cab, Mitchell decided to turn his tractor into a rolling office. In 2002, he established a wireless network for the farm using specialized 2.4-GHz NavCom Safari Network radios for high-speed Internet access. As a result, Mitchell can surf the Web for weather conditions and stock prices and download aerial images from anywhere on the farm. Because the network also provides a mechanism for remote machine monitoring and controlling, he can check on his grain bins to see how the product is drying and even make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agent: Farm Of the Future | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...first thing one notices about the opposition candidate is his face, full of scars and blisters that were absent from his once youthful, handsome visage just six months ago. And though Viktor Yushchenko, 50, raises bees in his spare time, he and his supporters from western Ukraine claim that there is nothing natural about his disfigurement, which they say is the result of a poisoning attempt by his political rivals in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ukraine's Rebellious Wonk | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...From Jimmy Buffet’s upcoming release: My spare-ribs, a cold one, FM and my wife. / Now you know that’s all this boy needs in his life...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Mentions of Fifteen Minutes You Might Have Missed | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...century London mother who tests light bulbs in a factory and keeps house for the wealthy to provide for her children and aged mother. Somehow, she still finds the time to invite neighbors over to her apartment for tea and a matchmaking session. In her “spare time”, she performs simple abortions to “help out young girls,” as she conceives of it, in a British cultural climate in which doing so is almost unthinkably wrong. The pendulous arm of justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...production (by Metal Face Doom himself on 12 of the 15 tracks here) is direct and sample-oriented. This is the anti-crunk: trebly, chill, metallic and hyperaware. Guest appearances, a frequent crutch employed by much of current hip-hop, are mostly absent; this guy has verses to spare anyway, why clutter the track with less-skilled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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