Events such as the Tech Inclusion Summit help more women and girls, minorities and youth to not only spark a spirit of innovation, but to keep it growing.

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She gets the sadness of the character but not the flip side of her personality, and she's just not a bright enough spark to keep Gatsby's torch burning for so long.

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"The hope would be that this is actually pointing toward some deficiency in the models, or some extra physics that we're not aware of, and maybe spark a whole new research direction, " White said.

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Despite the speculative doom and gloom, economists believe a fiscal cliff-spurred recession would not spark the kind of home price-hemorrhaging witnessed when the housing bubble burst five years ago.

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Not a bad pair of second acts for the man who helped spark the personal computer revolution.

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Mike Gesell, who did not start because of a foot injury, came off the bench to spark the run with a 3-pointer and an assist to Melsahn Basabe on a dunk that brought the sellout crowd of more than 15, 000 fans to its feet.

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The results could be cause for concern in the U.S., but should not spark alarm, said Soumitra Dutta, a professor at the international business school INSEAD and the co-editor of the WEF report.

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