Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
It was only a few months ago that DARPA initiated their ambitious Robotics Challenge that reserves a cash prize for a (probably) humanoid robot that can drive to a disaster area and perform several rescue functions including breaking through rubble and closing off a leaky pipe.
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Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco (nyse: GRP - news - people ) in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
Sangamo scientists tether to the zinc finger a protein that contains the instructions for the targeted gene: turn on, turn off, get louder, pipe down.
Panasonic showed off a system that can pipe terrestrial digital broadcasts into trains, coupled with a wireless system to allow commuters to hear a broadcast's audio via headsets without disturbing other passengers (hey, some of us like to work, read -- or sleep -- on the train).
But after an anxious 25 minute wait, the flash igniters set up around the leaking gas pipe failed to go off.
Water to all 353 apartments in West Point was turned off on Wednesday morning because of a fractured pipe.
Jamie Pipe survived the hat-trick ball but was caught off a lifting delivery from Anyon and captain Rikki Clarke was lbw when he played across the line at Carter.
It claimed that a pump used to pipe water to thousands of homes was damaged after being repeatedly powered on and off.
Since then, at least 5, 000 barrels of oil per day have erupted from the broken well pipe which is 5, 000 feet under water, 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.
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