Word: tinier
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...micro-air vehicles will fly as far as six miles from their takeoff point for as long as two hours, feeding video images back to special military ground stations that will use the information to coordinate ground attacks and air strikes. Pentagon researchers are busy developing aviation assets even tinier than such mechanical sparrows. They're training honeybees, parasitic wasps and giant sphinx moths to detect land mines and caches of biological and chemical weapons. Outfitted with radio backpacks, each smaller than a grain of rice, the insects will pinpoint the location of such deadly weapons for destruction...
...fact, if one tallies the expenses of the Senior Gift campaign, the already small impact of the donations of the senior class becomes yet tinier and possibly negative," the website says...