In the 16th century, they were leaders in adopting American ideas--making rubber balls, cultivating tobacco, eating corn.

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Give away the rubber balls.

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That starts off with a "junk shot, " in which material such as rubber tires and golf balls is pumped into the shut-off valve, or blowout preventer, that sits atop the well.

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It made rubber boots, tires and golf balls.

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The sheets are then soaked in oil, which penetrates the rubber and creates oil-filled cavities around each of the balls, allowing them to rotate freely.

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So he made a dramatic career switch, breaking free of Microsoft's golden handcuffs in 2003 and three years later starting a company called Fair Trade Sports, which makes balls for soccer, basketball, football and rugby using rubber cultivated in pesticide-free plantations in India and Sri Lanka.

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If you think of your career as a juggling act of various balls, ask yourself which of those balls are made of glass and would shatter if dropped, and which are made of rubber and would bounce back.

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Dr Brady thinks that the growing of rubber in the Aztec empire was probably much more extensive than had previously been thought, as was the production of balls, which may have served as the store of value for an entire economic system.

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