Best of all, it doesn't break down if it rains at the construction site or out in the hardware-store back lot.

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Even the guy hired to oversee Home Depot's latest experiments--the high-ticket Expo Design Centers and the smaller-format Villager's Hardware (see box, " Under Construction " )--spends time cruising the aisles.

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If a tornado knocks out a shopping center, a handful of grocery stores, all the hardware stores, lumber yards, and a handful of construction companies, we simply have less stuff to go around.

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But if we were buying so much military hardware, how could we build so many dams and bridges--103 with another 23 under construction.

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Security flaws in commercial software and hardware were popular topics at camp workshops, which included discussions on "Biometric Insecurity" and the construction of Windows NT Shell Code for Buffer Overflow Exploits.

CNN: Reporter's notebook: Hackers on holiday

Support services and technology, hardware and equipment companies issued the greatest number of warnings in Scotland during 2012, with three each, followed by construction and materials businesses and software and computer services firms.

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