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Dick Schirado has created motion-activated watering systems for cattle and other gadgets to make farm/ranch life easier, but says the real challenge is convincing others to bring his work to market.

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Milton Levine, co-inventor of the classic Ant Farm toy that gave millions of youngsters a sneak peak into the underground lives of insects, has died at age 97. Levine died of natural causes on Jan. 16 ...