Though the bing tuan is China's most efficient grower of cotton, thanks largely to its use of plastic strips (a Japanese invention) laid over the cotton seedlings to conserve moisture, it employs over 300, 000 workers for the harvest.

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The GSA announced this week that trials of workstation lighting controls and advanced power strips dramatically reduced electricity use in federal buildings.

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None of them were secure and all could be easily opened by a variety of simple techniques including the use of paper clips, straws, brass strips of metal, vibration, shock, coat hangers, and other methods that could easily be figured out by kids.

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The graph shows prescriptions, not dollar sales, and this strips away all the noise caused by price increases to show overall use.

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We were right on the cusp of the electronic age and had begun to use phototypesetting machines, but the paper was still composed physically on cardboard flats with film strips, X-Acto knives, hot wax, and rubber rollers.

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