There was a stale sandwich and a glass of frozen milk beside my bed.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

"I like to just pull in and have a sandwich and a glass of wine at a local place, " he says.

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You might drop into Davy Byrne's where Behan was arrested and Joyce's Leopold Bloom in Ulysses stopped to have a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy.

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It has a proprietary system for encoding 2D and 3D video using occlusion, which is delivered to standard panels that have been retrofitted with its optical glass sandwich to bring the spec-less 3D illusion to viewers.

ENGADGET

Layers of material which work as filters, electrodes, transistors and the liquid crystal itself are deposited onto a thin glass plate to form a sandwich that is covered with another pane of glass.

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The other established approach is to take two wafers of silicon, coat each with a thin layer of glass on one side (which is done by baking them in oxygen), and then fuse them together to produce a silicon-glass-silicon sandwich.

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To enable this material to store electrical energy, two layers of woven fibres are made into a sandwich, separated by a thin layer of a glass-based insulating material.

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Track everything -- While keeping a food journal is important for all dieters, it is particularly important if you don't have much weight to lose, as even small, seemingly inconsequential things like a slice of cheese or mayo on a sandwich, a larger size non-fat latte, or a second glass of wine, juice or soda, can interfere with weight loss.

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Dubbed the RAZR i MT788, this China Mobile device bears much similarity to its Western sibling on paper: 2GHz Intel Atom Z2480, 4.3-inch 960 x 540 AMOLED display (with Gorilla Glass), eight-megapixel camera, microSD expansion (up to 32GB) and Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

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