But it also includes modern components of participatory governance - the more than one billion shareholders.

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Our friends at Atari were kind enough to give us an extremely limited-edition (there are only two in existence) Atari 2600 gutted with modern PC components and signed by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell -- and one lucky soul will be able to call this beauty their very own!

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It is the by-product of the movement of electrons through the tiny wires connecting the millions of components on a modern processor.

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Such alternatives to testing have their value, but lack the fidelity provided by a true, nuclear explosive test that integrates the performance of all the some 6, 000 components of a modern weapon.

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For the money, you get a mix of modern design, top-shelf components and a whole lot of sucking-up from Toshiba's technical support.

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Even the skeletonized movement with 648 components has been given a modern touch by pairing old-world finishing techniques, including beveling, with contemporary treatments such as sandblasting.

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It is planned that parts of the body plant will be equipped to reuse modern robotic automation to produce higher levels of assembly with components from the press shop.

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Still included are the modern pentathlon, an odd event that includes equestrian show jumping and pistol shooting components, and cycling, a sport that has been plagued with doping scandals.

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Sure, there have been experiments in interactive TV -- gadgets like WebTV and modern game consoles are connected devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku and TiVo add connected components -- but most TVs in the US remain blissfully ignorant of the internet.

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