Word: tiring
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...Help is on the way. Food researchers at Oklahoma State University have created individually wrapped slices of peanut butter, and Smucker's new line of frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches is already available in some cities. Should you tire of this lunchbox classic, StarKist's new vacuum-packed tuna pouches mean you don't have to expend any effort draining juice from a can. To eat it, though, you'll still need a utensil. Not so with IncrEdibles' microwavable macaroni and cheese on a stick or its push-pop scrambled eggs. You'll appreciate the strength you save...
...will be calculating well beyond 500 trillion bytes per sec., at which point, as Ray Kurzweil suggests (see "Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am?"), they will be considerably smarter than we are. Evolution says organisms are replaced by species of superior adaptability. When our robots tire of taking orders, they may, if we're lucky, show more compassion to us than we've shown the species we have pushed into oblivion. Perhaps they will put us into zoos, throw peanuts at us and make us dance inside our cages...
...into wheeled vehicles, not the tracked tanks that have been the backbone of Army armor for more than a half-century. The civilian world's fascination with off-road vehicles has generated improvements the military wants for itself. Twenty years ago, only tracked vehicles could traverse squishy terrain. Today tire pressure can be adjusted from inside the cab--the softer the ground, the softer the tires--meaning heavy, tracked vehicles no longer have a monopoly on mobility. "If technology permits," says Shinseki, in what some of his colleagues see as battlefield blasphemy, "we are prepared to consider going...
That he has, and it allows him a second love, the open road. Near his home in Los Angeles is Sprewell Racing. It's a high-performance tire- and wheel-shop featuring lots of things that make you go zoom. "I drive all the time," he says. "I used to drive back and forth to school--to my junior college in Missouri, then from Alabama to Milwaukee. I've driven from California to Milwaukee by myself three times. I stop--sleep in the car for a couple of hours and then back on the road. I enjoy driving...
There are continuous protests not because they care about Vieques but because the Puerto Rican Independence Party has used this issue to tire the U.S. of its colony and advance their desire for independence against the wishes of more than 90 percent of Puerto Ricans...