Today, the Internet provides universal access to books and lectures and a fluid social network that lets any 19-year-old with an idea find rich investors or flash a resume to potential employers.

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Although the lenses are fixed in shape, they are connected via a network of fluid-filled channels, containing a light-absorbing pigment.

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Topping up the supply of healing fluid might be done by mimicking another biological system the network of blood capillaries that supplies living tissues with the stuff they need to thrive.

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It was a complex but relatively stable world defined by a network economy that was extremely rigid in some ways, and fluid in other ways.

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The most common OTEC design uses a fluid with a low boiling point typically ammonia which circulates through a network of pipes.

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Wolfe envisions a worldwide network of dozens of monitoring sites in emerging disease hot spots to collect body fluid samples from people who interact with wild animals.

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