Just nine days shy of the fifth anniversary of that gem, the left-hander retired the first 17 batters before Izturis lined a clean double several feet over the outstretched arm of third baseman Will Middlebrooks that landed just inside the foul line.

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On the boring end of things, the Looj is a remote-controlled bot that can clean up to 60 feet of gutter in 10 minutes.

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If you had decorative carved mouldings covered in 3, 000 square feet of gold leaf to clean, how would you do it?

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Instead they built huge, clean service bays and thousands of square feet of showroom space appointed with espresso machines and grand pianos.

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Polish substitute Ebi Smolarek had two decent efforts for his side in the closing stages but neither were on target, before Tomasz Zahorski missed a gilt-edged chance in the 88th minute when, after going clean through, he was denied by the feet of Runje as Croatia held on for the win.

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City of Hope's gene factory encompasses 20, 000 square feet of space, half of it devoted to "clean room" labs dedicated to producing complex, genetically engineered treatments for its trials.

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