The waiter asked if we'd like a pot of tea.

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It uses a vehicle-mounted camera, object-recognition software and satellite positioning to create detailed 3-D maps of roads, pinpointing features such as pot-holes.

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On a warm night, Alice, Bruno, and I raced through a bottle of the good house Chablis and the plate of sausages and radishes that came with a little pot of butter as soon as we'd ordered.

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The pot-tax-worried members included Representatives Sam Farr (D-CA), Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Pete Stark (D-CA) and Barney Frank (D-MA).

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"You'd have little packets that had this powder in it, you'd fill up your pitcher of water, you'd dump in the powder, stir it up, let it sit for a little bit, and then you'd have a permanent magnet that draws all the minerals down towards the bottom of the pot, and then you pour off the relatively clean water, " he said.

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I'd be remiss if I didn't also note the giant 15-inch, six-pot Brembo brakes that gleam through the front alloys.

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But our friends in the country lost power for 11 days, and because of our generator they could use our place for showers and wireless and refrigeration and that pot of coffee that turns out to be more central to a comfortable existence than you'd ever imagined.

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