The attacks come as French President Francois Hollande said on French television Saturday that French forces had attained their objectives in Mali, a country which until January had lost its northern half to an al-Qaida cell and their allies.

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Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.

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Langevin estimated that nearly half of all Americans could benefit from embryonic stem- cell research.

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It was the kind of place where I should have a clear shot to half a dozen cell phone towers, and five bars of call-making, web-surfing smartphone goodness.

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At its 100 factories in 28 countries on four continents, Flextronics churns out half a million products daily--printers for Hewlett-Packard, cell phones for Motorola and handhelds for Palm.

FORBES: The Detour Economy

At a hundred factories in 28 countries on four continents, Flextronics churns out half a million products daily--printers for Hewlett-Packard, cell phones for Ericsson and handhelds for Palm.

FORBES: The Detour Economy

No surprise, then, that more than half of teens (54 percent) say they use a hand-held cell phone while driving, similar to the 61 percent of parents who say they do so.

FORBES: Are You A Good Driver? Ask Your Teenager

Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.

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The docking station holding the fuel cell and battery combination will make a Thinkpad one-third to one-half thicker and deeper.

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