"It's the fourth one we've had in 18 months and so now when we see a plastic box we have to approach it with caution, " he said.
Jutting conspicuously out straight into the middle of the net, is a gray plastic lever that actually registers when you sink a shot.
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He showed me a photograph of himself, taken when he was arrested, which had been laminated on a plastic I.
This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).
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Miss McCluskie's torso was found a week later when the case snapped open, and her limbs were found in plastic bags a week later.
Plastic vuvuzelas hit the market in the late 1990s when Van Schalkwyk, who was a semi-professional footballer and part-time plastic molder, got the idea from fans of Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, who brought their metal vuvuzelas to games in Cape Town.
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Emilie Hutchings was just two-and-a-half when she had to have plastic surgery to repair the tip of her finger.
Firstly, when different types of plastic are involved, a uniform mixture is impossible to achieve even by melting the plastic with heat.
Boisset is also the producer of Yellow Jersey, the first wine that will be available in a 750-milliliter plastic bottle when it is launched in the U.S. later this summer.
The destitution is such that when The Economist's correspondent called with a plastic bag holding orange juice and biscuits, Sarah responded with thanks and asked whether she could keep the bag too.
"My husband teases me that I'm too vigilant when I buy turkey and put it in a plastic bag and put it on the bottom shelf of the grocery cart, away from everything else, " Undurraga said.
When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.
Knapp can see a time not so far in the future when even taxi drivers will take plastic, as they do in London, punching them into meters that double as a card-reading machines.
It's about par for the course when it comes to midrange handsets, with a slick plastic back that curves inward on each side so as to hug the edges.
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Anthony Missano, an executive at Sbarro, was looking for a way to attract teens to the pizza-and-pasta chain when a soft drink sales rep handed him a fountain drink with a mini music CD tucked inside the plastic lid.
Nexi showed that humans are better judges of trustworthiness after they see the telltale body language of dishonesty -- crossed arms, leaning back and other cues -- even when those expressions come from a collection of metal and plastic.
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When my oldest son was about 10, I bought a little plastic toy frog for him.
Raucheisen said duct tape and plastic zip ties are considered standard protocol when restraining a passenger.
When a power blackout or some other inevitable technical issue occurs, plastic cards can be imprinted mechanically with paper, or some other technology will be developed to record the transaction perfectly.
It takes four times as much energy to produce a paper bag than it does plastic, and when they're dumped away in landfills, paper bags don't biodegrade any better than plastic.
As a kid I remember lamenting when toy trucks began being made of plastic instead of metal.
HSS' transducer is a 28-micron-thick plastic film that flutters when exposed to an electric field (because it is "piezoelectric").
When and how Visa unshackles customers from their wad of plastic is a tricky question politically at least as much as technologically.
It has a nice amount of tension when flicked, but its chrome-finished plastic feels decidedly cheap compared the rest of the camera's design.
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Mr Taylor was given a tetanus jag and returned the next day for plastic surgery when the "ragged edges" were removed and his ear was stitched.
When the officer confronted him, the man sprayed the air with fluid from a plastic pump bottle that he had inside his jacket.
The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.
Since the pen was made of plastic, there wasn't a risk of encountering electrical voltage when I pushed in the remainder of the disengaged breaker.
Phthalates, the chemicals that make a PVC container flexible, "can migrate out of the plastic when it's heated, " says Dr. Halden, who has done comprehensive studies on emerging contaminants and plastics for more than a decade.
When faced with this plastic dilemma, it would have been much more impressive to read a press release about how Method had innovated a way to preserve the aesthetic integrity of its products while still maintaining its environmental integrity.
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