If you work in an office, make sure to wash your hands at regular intervals, especially after touching shared objects or surfaces like coffee pots, elevator buttons, the Xerox machine, office supplies, and doorknobs.

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He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat with a book taken from the library, copied all its pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked to passersby like the honest pages of business.

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Saddam has now had several years to perfect his already considerable talent of concealment, and now the international community is breathlessly fly-specking a 12, 000 page denial from Saddam, and arguing over who should have had access to the Xerox machine to make copies.

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They've set free the coolest technology from behind the locked lab doors at IBM, Xerox and the telephone companies and aft of the machine-gun-equipped guards at America's defense contractors, all of whom had reasons of their own--perfectly valid at the time--to keep the cool stuff from seeing the light of day.

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The fax machine was invented in 1843, and both Xerox and Bell Labs had ongoing projects to fine-tune the concept.

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He did not have a vision before his Xerox visit, and his idea after was simply to make and market the machine he saw come together in his mind.

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