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A remote control for a car alarm works better held up at arm's length than
at waist level but works best when held under the chin physicists suggest that
the body may be acting as an extension of the antenna.
A remote control for a car alarm works better held up at arm's length than
at waist level but works best when held under the chin;
physicists suggest that the body may be acting as an extension of the
antenna.
A remote control for a car alarm works better held up at arm's length than
at waist level but works best when held under the chin.
Physicists suggest that the body may be acting as an extension of the
antenna.
--"Newscripts," Chemical & Engineering News (modified)
Lenticular clouds frequently form one above the other like a stack of
pancakes at a distance they may resemble a fleet of hovering spacecraft.
Lenticular clouds frequently form one above the other like a stack of
pancakes; at a distance they may resemble a fleet of hovering spacecraft.
Lenticular clouds frequently form one above the other like a stack of
pancakes. At a distance they may resemble a fleet of hovering spacecraft.
Lenticular clouds frequently form one above the other like a stack of
pancakes, and at a distance they may resemble a fleet of hovering
spacecraft.
--C. Donald Ahrens, Meteorology Today (modified)
