• But even more embarrassing than that, was that someone was already in prison for the murder of Francis Barker - the first in the sequence from 1977 - and had been for almost 30 years.

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  • SmartBook represents a breakthrough achievement in reading, as it breaks the centuries-old tradition of books as linear experiences that presume to be read in their entirety, and in a pre-defined sequence, in order to be understood.

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  • Fortunately the Collector's Edition DVD, which features a video interview with Mr. Spielberg, gives us the movie's set pieces -- like the dance-hall sequence -- in all their swooping glory.

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  • By adding a solution that releases both the plant and the human DNA from the paper, the geneticist can then analyze the DNA for his or her chosen purpose--for example, to look for a mutation in the human DNA sequence--with the rice DNA sitting alongside harmlessly and acting as an ID tag.

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  • Samuel Fuller, who was a novelist as well as movie director, used to write up these big storyboards, not necessarily with ideas, but he would have this different - the sequence of scenes in different colors: red for a romantic scene, blue for an action sequence - and try to vary his pace that way.

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  • Ralph Nelson Elliott, the architect of the Elliott Wave Principle, suggested that at least one wave in a five-wave sequence is likely to be an extended wave.

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  • The final product was used in the film during a high-octane action sequence, which resulted in the meticulously crafted prop receiving a Wile E.

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  • It turns out that when the electrical switches in these devices, nominally acquired for use as kidney stone-smashers, are employed in sequence, they can be used to detonate nuclear weapons.

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  • Both rely on having a protein's amino-acid sequence in the bag, and both have strengths and weaknesses.

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  • DNA-sequence data in public databases acknowledges that progress is dependent on access.

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  • There are also examples of the work Muybridge did up and down the Pacific coast for the national body in charge of lighthouses, including a sequence of unusual large-format seascapes completed in the 1870s, at precisely the time that Thomas Stevenson (father of Robert Louis) was designing his lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland.

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  • And they endured an 18-match losing sequence in ODIs before beating Zimbabwe by eight runs in March.

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  • Dr Venter, too, left the NIH in the wake of the expressed-sequence-tag incident.

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  • The camera is also equipped with an Enhanced Motion Snapshot Mode, which users can utilize to capture fleeting moments with a short, slow-motion movie sequence in addition to a single defining still image.

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  • The seats--enough for about 20 vehicles--are loaded, in sequence of vehicles to be made, onto conveyor belts, where they travel high in the plant's rafters down to the spot on the assembly line where Nissan workers are ready to install them.

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  • After being asked to type in a five-sentence-long code sequence, the students get restless and start cracking jokes.

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  • In doing that calculation, it helps a lot if you know what the atoms in question are in other words, the amino-acid sequence.

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  • From the lengthy opening sequence in which the pre-crime division go about preventing a murder, this is genuine edge-of-the-seat stuff tempered with a healthy dose of dark humour.

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  • Those killings come in a gruelling, 15-minute final sequence.

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  • Just as an example, note musical sketch from 2009 where comedy group Axis of Awesome amaze their audience by playing 36 modern pop songs over the same four-chord structure, in one long sequence.

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  • The rover was scheduled to touch down in less than forty-eight hours, after the most complex and technically daring landing sequence in the history of the space program.

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  • Then two competing groups of scientists--one working for the government and one in the private sector--stopped feuding and announced the first mapping of the human DNA sequence in June 2000 at the White House.

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  • For gamers, the SanDisk Extreme SSD can launch applications in a fraction of the time and reduce in-game delays by generating environments faster during sequence transitions.

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  • Their news directors took the output of this camera and edited his expressions into a rapid-cut sequence that they ran in their local and national broadcasts repeatedly.

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  • "What will come out of this is a detailed, real-time sequence of what happens in a brain surgery through all the stages from preparation, to shaving the hair, to making the incision, to draping, " Dr. Kim says.

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  • The director, Andrei Ujica, provides a salutary reminder that, before turning monstrous, Ceausescu had a reputation for open-mindedness, as seen in a remarkable sequence in which the dictator rouses a crowd by speaking out, bravely and defiantly, against the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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  • Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.

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  • This week, the release of Revenge of the Sith completes a six-movie, 15 hour sequence in which the trilogy of films released in the last six years (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and now Revenge of the Sith) form a prequel to the original Star Wars films released between 1977 and 83, numbered parts IV-VI (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi).

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  • The short-term increase in the borrowing cap is the brainchild of House Republicans, who wanted to re-sequence a series of upcoming budget battles, taking the threat of a potentially devastating government default off the table and instead setting up a clash in March over automatic across-the-board spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and many domestic programs.

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  • The last stage in the sequence will see a hovering, rocket-powered crane lower the rover to the ground on nylon cords.

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