Word: lights
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...coup, he did it with the active support and encouragement of the U.S. government, who saw the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende as a dire threat to its Cold War regional interests. The Clinton administration has forced the keepers of the nation's secrets to shine some light on the relationship between Washington and Pinochet, and what has emerged through four tranches of document declassification is an unflattering picture of U.S. collusion with a regime that systematically undermined the constitution of Latin America's oldest democracy, and brutalized its citizenry. And what's worth bearing in mind here...
...light of recent resignations and expulsions due to excessive absences, the council decided last month to hold special elections in order to fill open seats in Cabot, Currier, Dudley and Winthrop Houses...
CLIP-ON SHOE DEODORIZER INVENTOR: TANITA CORP. The Deodorant Light for Shoes has two tiny lamps that beam safe levels of ultraviolet light into shoes to eliminate isovaleric acid--the cause of the disease more commonly known as stinky feet. It was developed for a Japanese market obsessed with cleanliness; each 3-min. treatment eliminates 86.7% of acids. That should...
...them. Currently in the works are projects ranging from a solar-powered, unmanned plane with a wingspan nearly as large as a football field to a pocket-size device that substitutes for a visit to the health club to a contraption that literally makes a backpacking hiker light on his feet...
...about the pound, which had risen to around $2; yes, and the Kremer Prize. Why, he mused, had no one been able to claim the [pound]50,000 offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer for the first man-powered flight around a mile-long, figure-eight course? "Then a light bulb went on above my head," says MacCready. "It was a eureka moment." The Kremer Prize, he realized, would about pay off his debt. Sometimes inspiration is just that mundane. Necessity, invention's putative mother, comes in many guises...