The installation, currently housed at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing, layers 12 of its component clear plastic sheets to create a roughly one-foot deep display that plays a simple pre-drawn animation.

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Berbatov's touch and movement - the Bulgarian was always happy to drop deep and pick up the ball - had always drawn the attention in a distinctly ordinary opening 45 minutes.

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But more recent offerings, most of them memoirs rather than fiction, have drawn from a deep well of the no-less-tormenting post-colonial experience.

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Given all the discoveries that we have made from an up-close investigation of these ocean ridges, we can't help but wonder what we might find at the far end of the same plate tectonic cycle where seafloor is drawn back into the Earth's interior at deep-ocean trenches.

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Counter-demonstrations by Ahmadinejad backers have also drawn thousands, reflecting a deep fissure in the country.

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Despite the deep divisions on these and other issues, there are powerful incentives to avoid a drawn-out stoppage.

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Distrust between the two sides is so deep that Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Iran, expects a drawn-out process lasting well beyond November's American presidential election.

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