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...Just Right Don't overheat or overcool rooms. Set the thermostat lower in winter and higher in summer...
...Super Soaker is just one of 62 patents (with an additional 18 pending approval) that Johnson has amassed since his basement days. He's had ideas for hair-drying rollers, a digital thermostat, a baby-diaper detector that activates musical nursery rhymes when wet, and a device that measures soil moisture and waters grass automatically. Many of his ideas never went further than the prototype. He didn't have the money or the contacts in those early days to push them into production. "There are all kinds of ways to skin a cat, and there are all kinds of mousetraps...
...begin with an analogy. Suppose you set your thermostat to 70 degrees in the wintertime. This basically means that the thermometer tells the heater to switch on when the temperature dips below 70, and to turn off otherwise. This system, while perfectly successful at keeping the house at a reasonably consistent temperature, isn't especially efficient: The heater is forever being turned on and off, which is a waste of energy...
This time neither candidate can afford to take anything--not even the thermostat--for granted. When the two men lean into that awkward handshake next Tuesday in Boston, they will be looking at one of their last chances to define for undecided Americans what is at stake in November. The race is dead even, and more voters will be taking a common impression from the three debates than at any other time during the election...
...This time, neither candidate can afford to take anything - not even the thermostat - for granted. When the two men lean into that awkward handshake next Tuesday in Boston, they will be looking at one of their last chances to define for undecided Americans what is at stake in November. The race is dead even, and more voters will be taking a common impression from the three debates than at any other time during the election...