The members of the European Council have demonstrated in Brussels that they have fallen into a period of stupor following the French and Dutch "No" votes to the Constitution - if stupor is what is understood by a decrease in the activity of higher intellectual functions...

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The dogs were clinically dead, with no heartbeat, respiratory functions, or brain activity, but their tissues and organs were perfectly preserved because the procedure lowers the body temperature to about 50 degrees F.

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The APIs can work in both directions, serving the content and triggering callback functions to report on user activity.

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Second, their brain functions, as measured by electrical activity and high-tech scanning, are dissimilar.

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"These towers serve other important functions -- including law enforcement activity, medical transport flights, search and rescue missions, business and commerce and supporting flight schools across America, " the association said in a statement.

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Control access to the MFP and its functions at the group, individual, and activity level.

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You can perform none of those functions if you are engaged in some kind of wired activity.

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Second, it is possible and often desirable to separate out functions such as diplomacy and sales from surreptitious information gathering activity.

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Sleep deprivation also led to an increase in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls many of the body's "involuntary" functions.

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