The implications are far-reaching despite some misguided sniffs of derision from artificial intelligence cognoscenti, and are well beyond a single column.

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As a performance optimization, it uses stretching rather than tiling when the user would not be able to tell the difference, such as when a single column or row is being stretched.

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Facebook has confirmed to ABC News that it's conducting limited trials of an updated Timeline that moves the news feed to a single column, replaces the thumbnail navigation with simpler-looking tabs and makes all profile page information available through scrolling.

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Recently Facebook has been experimenting with a revamped, single-column layout for Timeline, the collection of posts and photos for each Facebook member.

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His first effort with IBM will be to simulate a single rat neurocortical column.

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Mr. Warming pointed to another picture of the spare, yet modern, steering-wheel column and single large dashboard dial on an old 1960s Mini, the inspiration for the minimalist dashboard of the Mini Rocketman, an even tinier Mini concept car that made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March.

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To achieve that "particular quality, " most craft distillers employ variations on small-batch pot stills, the kind of homey, copper kettle--looking devices you find at single-malt scotch distilleries, as opposed to the giant, continuous-process column stills of the big-volume liquor brands.

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But just as the majority of single mothers, who are not impoverished, don't deserve to be placed in the victim column, so, too, the majority of ultra-Orthodox Israelis do not deserve to have their reputation besmirched because of the bad behavior of a small, vocal and easily provoked minority.

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