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...The marvellous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods. If Homer was not the first who introduced the deities... ...e religion of Greece, he seems the first who brought them into a system of machinery for poetry, and such a one as makes its greatest importance and d... ...as the chief support of it. But whatever cause there might be to blame his machines in a philosophical or religious view, 38 The Iliad of Homer they ... ...all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his ter- rors, shaking Olympu... ... the poem to the end of this book. The scene here (except of the celestial machines) lies in the field towards the seashore. Aurora now, fair daughter...

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..., and moreover that the greater proportion of parish matters were one vast machine, of which she was the moving power. As she was a small spare woman,... ...lligence and interest, letting him see what he wished, and even having the machinery slacked to enable him to 61 Beechcroft At Rockstone perceive how... ... slated or iron-roofed sheds, rough workmen, and gratings and screeches of machinery. It was the Whites whom she wanted to see, and she never came upo... ...nt Jane, if the pulley of that crane—’ And all the way home they discussed machinery, and Gillian’s heart swelled. ‘I am afraid Gillian was greatly di... ...issions. Fergus wanted a formidable amount of precious tools, and inchoate machines, which Mrs. Halfpenny had regarded as ‘mess,’ and utterly refused ... ...ittle sister and the other for Kalliope, discovered that Fergus’s precious machine had been ruthlessly made away with, but secured his tools,—she foun... ...finished her crewel cushion, thanks to the aunts,’ said Gillian. ‘Fergus’s machine, how about that? Perpetual motion, wasn’t it?’ ‘That has turned int...

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...his immense misfortune I found a happy life. To be to you an indispensable machine, to know myself useful to your comfort, your luxury, has been the s...

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...aintained when in close quarters with the idol. The mechanic distrusts the machine which the trav- eller admires; and the officers of the army might b... ...man who could discover a way to mow wheat without injuring the straw, by a machine that could do the work of ten men, would be a man of genius.” “Yes,... ...us calicoes for thirty sous a yard less than we ever paid before; but that machine and all other industrial perfections will not breathe the breath of... ...74 Modeste Mignon Beethoven or an opera by Rossini requires human arms and machinery and manufactures. The cost of a monument is an almost brutal case...

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...es in so marvel- lous a situation to study nature in situ. What the boring machine, an insensible, inert instrument, was unable to bring to the surfac... ...s when you stand upon an insulated stool under the action of an electrical machine. It seems to me as if my compan- ions, the moment they touched me, ...

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...ng’ the head of the inventive youth who had first suggested the use of the machine, Mr. Pickwick was placed in it, and off the party set; Wardle and t...

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... armor, and fought hard, generally with success; and there was a revolving machine, something like a squirrel’s cage, in which the bear was always cli...

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... by no means agreed with the opinion of those who consider animals as mere machines, and when they bury their spurs in the belly of their horse, imagi...

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...le she laughed, as at a vile theatre whereof the imperfection of the stage machinery rather than the per- formance is the wretched source of amusement... ... in the night to behold visually the spectre cast forth from the perplexed machinery inside them, stare at it for a space, till touching conscious- ne... ...esume the distance to be. Well, sir, and a dilettantism costly in time and machinery is as ornamental as foxes’ tails and deers’ horns to an independe... ...ound her life, but her accel- erated pulses narrowed her thoughts upon the machinery of her project. She herself was metal, pointing all to her one ai... ...ulations at work, Willoughby stood above himself, contemplating his active machinery, which he could partly criticize but could not stop, in a singula... ... world outside. This hateful world had caught him and transformed him to a machine. The discovery he made was, that in the gratifica- tion of the egoi...

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...though his heels had been tugged, and were dangling some length out of the machine; but his comrade, with a determined blow of the lungs, gave another... ... has come to pass. A thing has come to pass which we feel to be right! The machinery of the world, then, is not entirely dislocated: there is harmony,... ...ed touchingly for news of the par- tridges. It was like the unlocking of a machine. Seymour was not blythe in his reply, but he was loud and forcible;...

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... and pestle in the cor- ner to the right. Near this bench stands a slender machine like a whip provided with a stand, a pedal, and an exaggerated winc... ...ly stopping him with the gag, and snatch- ing up the mouthpiece of the gas machine). You’ll be more help- less presently. (He presses the mouthpiece o...

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...ill 69 fought, causes tried, and even churches erected and prayers said, by machinery—by automatons in human form—it would be a considerable loss to ... ...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescri... ...would be greater, the more efficiently and scientifically the administrative machinery was constructed—the more skilful the arrangements for obtaining... ...ll men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacri ficed everything, will in the end avail ... ...e end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly , it has preferred to banish. End. On Li...

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...in my house when a workman could not readily be got, and to construct little machines for my experiments, while the intention of mak ing the experime... ...hlet, and working it up into his own, and mak ing some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and ... ...g. He procur’d an elegant apparatus for the purpose, in which all the little machines that I had roughly made for myself were nicely form’d by instrum...

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...nd flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy-... ... science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-whee...

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...dness of the Wood, and having no other Way, made me a long while upon this Machine, for I work’d it effectually by little and little into the Form of ... ...y common there; besides that, my Grindstone was very large and heavy. This Machine cost me a full Week’s Work to bring it to Perfection. April 28, 29.... ...ion. April 28, 29. These two whole Days I took up in grinding my Tools, my Machine for turning my Grindstone performing very well. April 30. Having pe...

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...ce. “I’m very sorry: but our ears haven’t got the right—” she wanted to say “machinery” in Doggee: but she had forgotten the word, and could only thin... ... up?” I said. “That’s something new. How does he do it?” “He’s got a curious machine “Sylvie was beginning to ex plain. “A welly curious machine,” Br... ...I thought it best to let the question drop, and to ask for an account of the machine that made things longer. This time Bruno was at a loss, and left ... ... added, giving the swing a push of extra vigour, which nearly took the whole machine off its balance. By this time it was clear to me that Eric Lindon... ...corner of the street and, in trying to avoid running over the box, upset his machine, and was thrown headlong against the wheel of the spring cart. Th...

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...r shattering the little peace of mind given to us in this world, or at the machine guns for letting with dispatch life out of our bod- ies. Now-a-days... ... coast by a squad of guerilleros. “It was she who winched up that infernal machine, and it was she too who lowered it that night,” was the answer. “Bu...

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... under the Speedy Trial Statute.” The middle-aged woman’s fingers clicked over her machine. “Now some time yesterday, an esteemed colleague and of... ...ved every minute of it, too. Some eccentrics developed hobbies like tinkering with machines or keeping endless diaries. Her mama talked to inanimat... ...le to settle in for brandy and cigars, I’ve got to come back here and talk into that machine the secretaries’ use. My girl won’t come here until the... ...approved, or was just amazed, at what they’d done. The image of Olin at the copying machine madly flinging original documents on the glass and cover...

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...David had neither audacity enough nor capital enough for such speculation. Machinery for pro- ducing paper in any length was just coming into use in E... ...ont to act. So, strange coincidence! while Lucien was drawn into the great machinery of journalism, where he was like to leave his honor and his intel... ...as the “bears” contemptuously called them), and showed him the magnificent machines, twelve in number, now at work in the Cointets’ great printing off... ...wide interest are submitted to him that he does not look upon procedure as machinery for bringing money into his pocket, but as a weapon of at- tack a... ...he immense majority of Frenchmen, a minute description of some part of the machinery of bank- ing will be as interesting as any chapter of foreign tra... ...” Marion made half a franc a day by working half time in a paper mill as a machine tender, and her wages contributed to the support of the household. ... ...re industrial problem; and when he has in- 61 Balzac vented some piece of machinery, or made a discovery of some kind, he takes out a patent and imag... ... entirely in M. Sechard’s father’s hands. I should owe him the hire of the machinery as well as the house-rent; and my husband would still be open to ... ...this kind would be forced to leave the place. In the absence of recognized machinery, therefore, the arrest of a debtor is a problem presenting no sma...

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...l were revised to discuss the phototypesetting technology that had begun to displace lead type as well as the old Linotype and Monotype metal-casting machines—technologies that dated from the end of the nineteenth century. Nearly 200 pages longer than its predecessor, the 13th edition also addressed, for the first time, the use of personal computers and word processors, wh...

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...-speaking peoples, nineteenth-century progress, white-rat serum, up-to-date machinery, four-year-old boy, house-to-house canvass, go-as-you-please f... ...t in parentheses (see above illustration). 220. In work set on the linotype machine footnotes should be numbered consecutively through an article, o... ... and aligned, should be used between the columns; when set on the linotype machine, use regular Manual of Style: Tabular Work 75 leaders. In rule... ...ch part or chapter on a separate page in the body of the book. TYPESETTING MACHINES- 274. The linotype-named Mergenthaler after its inven- tor-is ... ...- 274. The linotype-named Mergenthaler after its inven- tor-is a composing-machine on which, by touching 92 The University of Chicago Press a ke... ...ly in lines in a receptacle, which then is brought in contact, on the same machine, with molten type-metal, through a mechanical device which liber... ...of type. 275. The monotype-named Lanston after the patentee is a composing-machine on which, by touching a key- board, perforations are made in str... ...rations are made in strips of paper, which then are transferred to a second machine, where the matrices to which the perforations correspond are br... ...wise. NOTE.-It is important to remember that in matter set on the linotype machine the slightest change necessitates the resetting of the whole lin...

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...g baby, and for the house. She made drapes and bedspreads on an old sewing machine she got at a church sale. Together, they bought furniture from ‘con... ...hat networking was largely respon- sible for his success. He heard the fax machine ringing behind him. With a last, satisfied look at the throngs belo... ...lete-body bone scan, grateful that she didn’t need a driver this time. The machine whirred and coughed and grunted as it moved up and down and all aro... ...ay after Christmas Lacey had a brain scan under another whirring, clicking machine. I think brain cancer must 117 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE be the worst, t... ...a sip and stood up. “Shall we do the dishes?” “Sure, just drop them in the machine will you? I have to take Barney out. Rain or shine or snow, he has ... ... the street, and got a glimpse of armed troops in fatigue uniform leveling machine guns at a group of men near their bus. For a moment she felt reliev... ...For a moment she felt relieved. Then she saw that the men near the bus had machine guns too. She ducked back down and moved the phone a bit, trying to... ...e could stand when the door flew open and several men marched in. Some had machine guns. One man stepped forward as the oth- ers trained the guns on t... ...ur medical care? You might be warehoused somewhere, possibly in a bed with machines and tubes at- tached to your body, or strapped in a wheelchair and...

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...f labour has rendered a distinct trade, nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of la... ...ies of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the ... ...e how much labour is facilitated and abridged by the application of proper machinery. It is unnecessary to give any example. I shall only observe, the... ... only observe, there- 15 Adam Smith fore, that the invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged, seems to have... ... whenever the nature of it admits of such improvement. A great part of the machines made use of in those manufactures in which labour is most subdivid... ...ed to visit such manufactures, must frequently have been shewn very pretty machines, which were the inventions of such workmen, in order to facilitate... ...ndle of the valve which opened this com- munication to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave hi... ...lay-fellows. One of the greatest improvements that has been made upon this machine, since it was first invented, was in this manner the discovery of a... ...covery of a boy who wanted to save his own labour. All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the inventions of those who had o...

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...lds has made an infinite num- 8 Balzac ber of heavy, weighty, and serious machines with great wheels, large chains, terrible notches, and frightfully... ... him conducted to a wretched little closet where Perrotte had arranged her machine in order to annoy him during the night. The tom-cats of the neighbo... ... which are naive beyond description. This is as true as the double chewing machine of a cow. Do not expect a man to be inno- cent after the manner of ...

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...decision was to go to Madison, Wisconsin, and enter his clocks in the State Fair, with the hope that somebody might see them and offer him a job in a machine shop! All the baggage he carried the day he left home was a package made up of two clocks and a small thermometer made of a piece of old washboard, all three tied together with no covering or case of any sort, the who...

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...ontinents and seas, that he was unable as yet to emulate; from vast modern machineries and facilities whose acquaintance he had still to make, but as ... ...ce of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the Book I, Chapter 1 11 antidote to superstition, wh... ...to the stale summer day, rattled down at the turn of some crank. There was machinery again, just as the plate glass, all about him, was money, was pow... ...mselves were the immensity of the result; they were one with perfection of machinery, they had constituted the kind of acquisitive power engendered an... ... causes, and Mr. Verver grew in time even a little amused at the amount of machinery Mrs. Assingham had seemed to see needed for pointing it. She was ... ...ose tacit and abstemious presence, never betrayed by a rattle of her rusty machine, a room in the attic and a plate at the side table were decently us... .... If the Princess moreover had failed of her occult use for so much of the machinery of diversion, she would still have had a sense not other than sym...

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...ion King Size Mattress King Size Bed Wardrobe / Dresser / Desk Sofa / Couch Bookcase Heavy kitchen appliances (refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, dish washers, cookers) Protecting the floors and the walls Final tips Treat Your Moving Crew The Way You Want To Be Treated Be there on time Make them feel welcome Provide timely information Be considerate of...

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...uch books only as I happen to possess, I find abundant proof that this simple machinery has been in use from time imme- morial.” Jefferson cites from h... ...ld have been hard-pressed to do so. Perhaps you could find a balky mimeograph machine, or press a reel-to-reel tape recorder into use. You might manage... ...g printing press. Three-quarters of the way along the line is a photocopying machine. At the far end lies the Internet and the online version of the h... ... (copyright was now being used to regulate functional articles of commerce: “machines” made of binary code). The dif- ference between copying and read... ...that no one else uses is in the position of the person who owns the only fax machine in the world. Peer-to-peer networks provide cheap and unregula- b... ...orks will also carry large amounts of illicit material, just as photocopying machines (and VCRs) are widely used to violate copyright. The Grokster ca... ...e copyright owner does not want you to, or from skipping the FBI notice. The machine will not do it. In fact, it is deliberately built so that it cann... ...copies back to a single infringing printing press, we face the fear that the machinery of piracy can be copied just as fast as the copies it allows us... ...e same program will be covered by copyright and by patent. But software is a machine made of words, the machine of the digital age. That fact already ...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner, simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks,...

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...inks between (1) data conditioning and information management, (2) combined situation and impact assessment, and (2) knowledge representation between machine processing and user coordination. Various applications leverage DSmT “Advances” listed above along with DSmH (hybrid), DSmP (Probabilistic), and DSmT theoretical insights. The third volume attacks these application is...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner, Simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks,...

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...the flat, feeling cold and used. Exactly four minutes later a motorbike roared up bearing a leather-clad, helmeted Martian who jumped off, locked his machine and panted over. ‘I’m not too late am I? She sounded pretty awesome.’ ‘No, you’re fine. Rather you than me, though.’ Upstairs, water was still splashing around in the bathroom. ‘Is that him?’ Frances yelled. ‘Yes...

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...neapples under the Dole brand. In 1911, engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine that revolutionized the industry by peeling and coring 80 pineapp... ...motionless for 5 minutes while lying in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine is diffi cult. For some, especially the very young, it’s nearly imp... ...’s Medical Center, has invented a revolutionary system that allows an MRI machine to compensate for slight movements—making this life-saving medical ... ... tissue and place the syringe into a CIS unit in the operating room. The machine washes the fat and adds an enzyme solution that isolates stem cel...

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...dists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machin... ...have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank guard, copy machin...

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...t true-blue. But that's because he is developing his tank in secret, and they don't know he's concentrating on winning the war the American way, with machines. The second problem is that the German spies have penetrated the secret of what is being built in the high-security shop on the Swift property. And they will stop at nothing to steal its design - not kidnapping Tom, ...

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...his hole. A vast quantity of wheels, pinions, and other cabalistic—looking machinery stood opposite the hole, close to it; and through the hole there ... ... hole, close to it; and through the hole there passed an iron rod from the machinery. Between the wheels and the wall where the hole lay there was bar... ... was not all a desert, and Pompey not altogether cruel. The ticking of the machinery amused me. Amused me, I say, for my sensations now bordered upon ... ...t to startle the strongest nerves. My eyes, from the cruel pressure of the machine, were absolutely starting from their sockets. While I was thinking ... ...her the fool could not, or the villain would not perceive me. Meantime the machine rapidly soared, while my strength even more rapidly failed. I was s... ...g air of a horse- jockey, and adjusted therein a somewhat singular-looking machine, in a very dexterous manner, that I could not alto- gether comprehe... ...e understanding, who make no scruple in pronounc- ing the Automaton a pure machine, unconnected with human agency in its movements, and consequently, ... ...the drawer together, an answer is returned only to the lower one. When the machinery is wound up, the movements continue about an hour, during which t... ...tor stated that the means by which the different medallions acted upon the machinery, so as to produce the proper answers to the questions which they ...

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...es in the dusk. Their steady march was like the progress of 7 Hawthorne a machine, that would roll irresistibly over everything in its way. Next, mov... ...g a village as three cotton factories and a slitting mill can make it. The machinery was not in motion, and but a few of the shop doors unbarred, when... ... terrible loquacity as more than compensated for the silence of the cotton machines, which refrained from their usual din out of respect to the deceas... ...f the riddle be not already guessed, a few words will ex- plain the simple machinery by which this “coming event” was made to “cast its shadow before.... ...pisco- palian and suspected Catholic was grotesquely incased in the former machine while a fellow-criminal, who had boister- ously quaffed a health to...

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...dth of the other, with a typewriter on it. His typist is sit- ting at this machine, with her back to the window. The large table is littered with pamp... ...er, but sensi- tive and affectionate. She is clattering away busily at her machine whilst Morell opens the last of his morning’s let- ters. He realize... ... I don’t hemploy no women now: they’re all sacked; and the work is done by machinery. Not a man ‘as less than sixpence a hour; and the skilled ‘ands g... ...ely at the tension wheel.) PROSERPINE. Oh, now I understand. (She sets the machine to rights, talking volubly all the time.) I suppose you thought it ... ... love letter for you straight off, eh? MARCHBANKS (seriously). I suppose a machine could be made to write love-letters. They’re all the same, aren’t t... ...to Morell). Reply paid. The boy’s waiting. (To Candida, coming back to her machine and sitting down.) Maria is ready for you now in the kitchen, Mrs. ... ...n’t choose. These people forget that I am a man: they think I am a talking machine to be turned on for their pleasure every evening of my life. May I ... ...e. (She relieves her feelings by throwing her note-book angrily beside her machine, ready for use next morning.) MORELL (soothingly). Oh, well, well, ...

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...e to see a car that flies? One will never know. As the gap between man and machine grows smaller and smaller, we will be exposed to new and exciting i...

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...ased me any further, I would switch you off understand...” “Rather than thanking me you have started complaints. The humans are always rude to the machines they made.” Computer digital voice complained. This mini robot computer is an amazing invention of Dr. Jabran which has been developed and programmed in such a unique way that it counsels him in difficult times li...

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...Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along socially and how they carry out their business ventures. It then discusses how these elements influence oth...

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...ntify the metal item or items that caused the alarm. In addition, an X-ray machine would have screened the hijackers’ carry-on belongings.The screenin... ...int. Mihdhar and Moqed placed their carry-on bags on the belt of the X-ray machine and proceeded through the first metal detector. Both set off the al... ...y tried to call his wife, Julie. He left a message on their home answering machine that the plane had been hijacked. He then called his mother, Louise... ...rtant and obvious layer of security.Walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines operated by trained screeners were employed to stop prohibited ite... ...s did not set off metal detectors, or were hard to distinguish in an X-ray machine from innocent everyday items. 56 While FAA rules did not expressly ... ...e relied on any objec- tive factor that could be detected by “scores” or a machine. Good people who have worked in such jobs for a long time understan... ... deviations were necessary because of the placement of heavy elevators and machine rooms, and were located between the 42nd and 48th floors and the 76... ...ney general and the secretary of state issue to all non-U.S. citizens only machine-readable, tamper-resistant visas and other travel and entry documen...

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...ing to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...