Around 2:30 Monday morning, a pair of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters dipped over the Kabul mountains and zeroed in on the insurgent-held building in the diplomatic quarter, unleashing sustained machine-gun fire.

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This could be done, for instance, by allowing a caretaker president for a while or in building and running a communist party-like hegemonic political machine or by taking the prime-minister's office and transferring all real political power to it.

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IBM, which dominates the annual list of the top 500 supercomputers, announced that it was building the machine in 1999 and, like the new Compaq-Celera collaboration, it will be ready by 2004.

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This notion was revived in the 1950s, when the building of a genuine chess-playing machine was seen by artificial-intelligence researchers as a stepping-stone towards a general theory of machine intelligence.

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When the machine-building department at Bielefeld's University of Applied Sciences looked in danger of closing, industry drummed up interest among students to keep it open.

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Though they are outnumbered and out-armed by the Syrian military, members of the Free Syrian Army managed to attack an air force intelligence building in Harasta, near Damascus, with machine guns Sunday night, FSA deputy head Malek al-Kurdi said.

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Michael Ware, 37, accidently got into the arcade cabinet-building business when he designed an emulator-based machine for his wife, 35, as a Christmas present back in December 2002.

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