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Remember those bi-partisan Congressional votes phasing out incandescent light bulbs in favor of fragile mercury-laden, landfill-destined compact fluorescent lighting to clearly dispel any such illusions.
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Re-energised, Jones knocked Griffin out in a single round to claim the WBA light-heavyweight crown.
Yet all the teams are committed to dramatically reducing their operating costs, particularly in the light of Honda's pull-out.
Sussex's plight worsened in deteriorating light with first-innings centurion Hodd run out before Singh bowled Ollie Rayner and Saqlain fell to Sreesanth.
"I don't want to be the guy who turns out the light in the genre-blending room, " he says.
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But it is possible to detect minute deviations in this signal, and these fluctuations - seen as mottling in the map - are understood to reflect the differences in the density of matter when the light parted company and set out on its journey all those years ago.
Ottawa, which four years ago elected a mayor who promised to freeze taxes and stop an expensive light-rail project, has just tossed him out in favour of Jim Watson, another former cabinet minister from the provincial Liberal government.
When exposed to light in the visible spectrum, the fabric turns out to be self-cleaning.
Armed only with the light and apps from your in-game smartphone, you must try to get out alive.
Pryce said he had had a difficult year, most recently knocked out by Matthew Hall for the Commonwealth light-middleweight title in March.
Typically, a flash can be too bright and wash out one's subject when used in low-light or night-time settings, ruining what could have been a great image.
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Researchers said that result doesn't rule out the possibility that short-wavelength light also could be an alerting stimulus in the afternoon.
On another morning, we set out at first light from the house in Shey for morning prayers at the 15th-century Tikse Monastery.
The galactic centre can only be observed at certain wavelengths - such as X-rays - because large amounts of dust lie in our line of sight, blocking out optical light.
Galex - a space telescope designed to search for the ultraviolet light that newly born stars put out - hinted that NGC 6872 was made much larger in size by the collision.
In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.
In an informal test of solar lights carried out by The Economist in Africa, users grumbled about the soapy quality of light and lantern-style design.
Lumb followed his 219 in the County Championship last week with an unbeaten 57 out of 87-1 in 11 overs, well ahead of schedule when bad light ended play.
When light finally came up, three of the armored vehicles were up-ended in huge crater holes and trenches out there, but the most important thing -- the fuel trucks rolled in, they were not hit, they were not harassed in any way and they managed to deliver their vital supplies, which means the Marines now can push forward.
His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.
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