With no set schedules dictating the order of jobs, one group building coffee tables had to stop work and wait as the other team, making bookshelves, used the router tables they needed.

FORBES: Green Wood

They had caught on right away that this was a pretend school, where they were free of all requirement to learn anything, just as they were free of times tables and memory work.

NEWYORKER: Amundsen

"There are very few people that I've met here in the gulf that are in emergency situations, desperate to pay their mortgages and put food on their tables that have not sought other work, other employment, " Feinberg told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Wednesday in response to such grievances.

CNN: Allen: 'Our first goal is to do no harm' in Gulf

The AARP roadies--senior citizens who roam the country visiting grandchildren--won't be down for another hour, so now it's all hardworking business types sipping coffee at the too-small tables, preparing for another day of work on the road.

FORBES: The Camels of Innovation

"All young children should be confident with methods of addition, subtraction, times tables and division before they pick up the calculator to work out more complex sums, " she said.

BBC: Government bans calculators from primary maths tests

Kent's education authorities are being challenged to work with the schools watchdog after poor performances in Ofsted's primary schools league tables.

BBC: Ofsted tables: Kent schools in bottom 10

Festo isn't quite the household name that Boston Dynamics is. (And, really, we're not entirely sure Big Dog is a regular topic of conversation at dinner tables yet.) But, it certainly deserves just as much attention for the work they're doing with robotics.

ENGADGET: BionicOpter dragonfly drone flutters about, blows minds

It was served with an injunction preventing any further work but the exterior was already completed and facilities including a training centre, medical facility, pool and table tennis tables, satellite television, internet and washing machines, have been set up inside.

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