Yet the heart of the technology is machinery that can transfer heat in either direction.
It seems a good principle that when governments have machinery that can gather information, journalists should have it, too.
The exhibit has a gravel pit where the zoo's three bears can dig for food, a snow bank, a redesigned pool and machinery that can turn it into an artificial river.
Using machinery that can remove a hand just as easily as it cuts a piece of wood, we work some of the most exotic and costly materials in the world.
Mr. Spinola said his industry did not have hundreds of volunteers, a computerized phone bank or any of the other election machinery that can be deployed by the United Federation of Teachers and the hospital workers' union.
The countries that have benefited the most are the suppliers of major capital goods, particularly Germany, which have sold China rising amounts of machinery that can be used to produce manufactured goods, and the sellers of natural resources.
And while many of these jobs were lost to competition with low-wage countries, even more vanished because of computer-driven machinery that can do the work of 10, or in some cases, 100 workers.
"There is a deeply entrenched habit of thought," Mr. Kronman said, "which inclines to the view of the Constitution as a piece of very well constructed machinery that can and will answer any intractable problem that we may have -- impeachment, whatever.
These are tremendously effective moments, thanks to the highly advanced machinery that can create nuanced emotional tics on the faces of kooky, googly-eyed creatures and the outstanding voice acting talent of people like Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks and (believe it or not) sitcom dingus Ed O'Neill.
Officials said the Postal Service, whose 800,000 workers make it the nation's second-largest private employer after Wal-Mart, was in the process of ordering new machinery that can irradiate mail to remove contaminants, in the same way food is treated.
