Most of the ideas were pretty marginal--like automatic bowling-pin resetters--but in time the pair settled on a winner: an audio oscillator based on one of Hewlett's old college designs.

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Ward plays Sergeant Hoke Mosely, of the Miami Police Department, who starts out with false teeth and a pair of specs held together by a safety pin, and ends up stripped of his dentures, his badge, and his gun by a psychopath called Junior (Baldwin).

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The pair will soon begin an intense observation campaign that will pin down the variation in height across the globe to an accuracy of better than two metres.

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