The chip, etched in 0.25-micron detail -- state-of-the-art for graphics processors -- fits 10 million transistors onto a space about the size of a fingernail.

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The Japanese and Russian strands of this hugely complex tale of an evolving nation-state are picked out in less detail.

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In the first section, history paintings documenting the familiar events of 18th-century Venice, such as masked carnival-goers at the Ridotto, the state-run gambling house, are executed in precise detail, according to the canons of the neoclassical current of the day, with none of the fanciful splashes of color in the artist's later work.

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Zimbabwe's state-controlled media has also covered the funeral in huge detail and used the sort of tone previously reserved for those interred at Heroes' Acre.

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