Hammond's office, meanwhile, resembles one of her self-assembled patterns--nothing is out of place.

FORBES: Breakthroughs

Kadian had been to the repair shop to have the brakes checked on the self-assembled bike hours before the crash.

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Another barrier would be scaling the process so that the self-assembled nanoscale data grids could be stamped onto a surface automatically.

FORBES: Nanotech

Refreshingly self-critical, the assembled masses were told of the mistakes the big N made with marketing the GameCube, and the difficulty the traditionally family-orientated company was having in appealing to modern, gore-obsessed players.

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Outside the negotiations, two entirely different groups had also assembled, with a self-appointed brief of keeping the negotiators on track.

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Three years later he embarked his army in ships assembled by Lord Cochrane, a brilliant, if self-serving, British naval commander operating as a privateer, and landed in Peru.

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That's more the approach of Merrill Garbus, whose solo project is spelled tUnE-yArDs. (Hey, you won't forget her name, right?) Her 2009 album BiRd-BrAiNs began life as a DIY cassette release, assembled with a handheld voice recorder the "note to self" kind and free audio-editing software.

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