Textures are well-defined-like water rippling in a trough-and the changes in definition and brightness as you move in relationship to an object are impressive.

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And because no human life should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to set a high standard for humanity and pass a law against all human cloning.

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On a slightly smaller scale, there's the huge Siemens breaker I saw at the Bonneville Power Administration. (If you're thinking of buying one as an art object, ask your dealer for a Siemens 72.5 kV SF6 sulfur hexafluoride power circuit breaker).

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Get Michael Graves to design a toilet brush (as Target did) and you turn a mundane thing into an object of desire.

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And as Neil Kinnock discovered, being the object of ridicule is not advisable if you want to lead your party to an election victory.

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Each sensor, which is shaped like a hexagon and is about twice as thick as a hockey puck, is capable of monitoring the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure of virtually any object you can think of.

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And no matter what the parents say, you want to document as you're asking and seeing that child roll over, seeing that child walk, seeing that child transfer an object form left hand to right hand.

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But part of the problem with the definition - I mean, as an example - is that if you look at Mars - if Mars - if we discovered a Mars-sized object out beyond the orbit of Pluto, it couldn't be a planet, because over the age of the solar system it wouldn't have time to clear its orbit.

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