It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Unaccustomed Earth'

This occurrence would be similar to throwing a rock into a running washing machine -- clearly not a good idea.

CNN: Airplane deicing: The how and why

Users are throwing sand in Intel's money-making machine with their growing reluctance to pay a premium for PCs with powerful new chips.

ECONOMIST: Intel

If that's not enough, Google's ahead of you, and is throwing in 1TB of Drive storage with every Pixel for three years -- what it expects the life of the machine to be.

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