Thanks in no small part to the debacle in Europe, in a very few recent weeks, we have witnessed the great green crack-up.
The polymers return to a pre-defined shape when heated to a certain temperature, and, when damage is detected, an infrared laser sends light through the network to the damaged area, triggers the shape-memory, and commands the area to repair the crack or tear -- regaining up to 96 percent of its original strength.
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The super bears believe in a euro-crack up, the U.S. going to single A or even triple B credit rating, and maybe even defaulting.
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Despite this, we still hear from deficit-scared pundits on the right that our deficits signal a horrifying crack-up in our future.
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While both Apple and Microsoft started with the affluent, Google will be trying to crack the smart-phone market from the bottom up, industry sources say (Google declined to comment for this story).
First he flew into a clumsy challenge on Callum Woods, for which he was fortunate not to be booked, then, having flashed a low shot across goal, he was on the receiving end of a crack on the shin from the Pars player he had up-ended.
Or the Crack Intelligence Co-Coordinating Unit, set up with the blessing of the home secretary in 1989 but also dissolved a few years later - unwisely in the view of many who had been tracking the damage inflicted by the newly-emerging drug, crack cocaine?
In fact, unless they take his cry for change as what sounds like a much-needed wake-up call, it might be the crack in the foundation that tumbles the entire edifice.
As a result, the company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see: "Intel Vows To Rise Again").
The company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see "Intel Vows To Rise Again") and shifts from reconquering its core markets to finding fresh opportunities.
For Selmer Bringsjord, who heads RPI's department of cognitive science, getting a crack at Watson is like a car aficionado being tossed the keys to a souped-up Lamborghini.
Others depend upon whether researchers can crack the challenge of designing health-related sensors that can work flawlessly in a vehicle for up to a decade.
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And although he wasn't a drug user, he - because he had been cooking up crack and using his hands to cut the coke, it absorbed through his pores and he was, you know, tested positive.
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