But in noting the beams in their eyes, Ms Buckley is unaware of a mote in her own.

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In her chapter on the moon, she recounts how a friend of hers received a mote of moondust as a gift from a suitor who worked in a lunar research lab.

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Mr. FLASH: I can remember at a point when I would look - when I would think about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it was like this building that had a mote with sharks around it.

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In his new scheme, each Smart Dust sensor (which Pister calls a "mote") is about the size of a character in this sentence.

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Everyone knows that the days of easy money are a vanishing mote in the rearview mirror.

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Another mote inside that range picks up the first one's signal and grabs its data, adding readings of its own and passing the package along to a third mote.

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But before worrying about the mote in a distant polluter's eye, it makes sense to consider the beam in thine own.

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The grounding of the 787 fleet illustrates not the flaws in Boeing's industrial culture -- a rush to bring the airliner to market, a degree of over-innovation or a desire to please shareholders by outsourcing too much design and production -- but the rigor of a regulatory regime with a zero tolerance of any mote of imperfection.

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Then, they were temporarily housed at SeaWorld Orlando, Mote Marine Laboratory, and the Florida Aquarium, NOAA said in a press release Wednesday.

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