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In the retail grid's initial phases, Sun is offering processing and storage in a pay-as-you-go arrangement of $1 per CPU (central processing unit) per hour, delivered via an Internet connection. The company has established four data centers to fuel the service.

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The difference is that the Centrino sticker indicates that the PC in question includes an Intel processor, an Intel chipset and a Wi-Fi receiver tested and/or manufactured by the company. The VIIV sticker indicates that the PC contains an Intel processor, a chipset and a software stack for performing specific functions. In the past year or so, Intel has increasingly promoted its own homegrown software for entertainment tasks.

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A mock-up of the aircraft will be attached to a solid rocket to get it aloft. The real aircraft would likely have an efficient high-speed turbine engine. Japan has successfully tested an engine that can reach speeds of up to mach 5.5. After completing the test, the aircraft would glide back to the ground with the aid of a parachute. Japan had another test launch of this aircraft in 2002, but the launch ended in disaster when airplane separated from the rocket and fell onto the launch pad shortly after liftoff.

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The team believes a special type of "handed" space radiation destroyed more right-handed amino acids on the icy dust from which the solar system formed. This dust, along with the comets it condensed into, then crashed into Earth and other planets, providing them with an overabundance of left-handed amino acids that went on to form proteins

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“Wind processes are the only active processes that we know are happening on Mars,” said rover science team member Patrick Whelley, who has been studying the dust devil images, in a telephone interview. “They’re short term geologically and occur…[but] they have shaped the landscape.”