Callers suffer "all circuits are busy" messages, and on-liners know all about the World Wide Wait.

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All the circuits in my brain went lights out.

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"They want to really characterize the parts list of the brain and map all its circuits to see how they connect and communicate, " said neurobiologist Ed Boyden at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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But the First, Second, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits have all largely followed the Filartiga precedent.

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The late October storm ravaged Vourderis' business, and he was forced to replace all the corroded relays, circuits, breakers and wiring on the Ferris wheel.

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The goal is to use flexible plastic circuits to recreate all the basic functions of the human body, from digestion to breathing and everything in between.

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"It provides a recipe for delivering all sorts of advanced technologies, such as full integrated circuits down in the brain, " Dr. Rogers said.

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But he notes that companies like Cavium, Applied Micro Circuits, Texas Instruments, LSI and Fairchild have all talked publicly about using ARM processors in networking infrastructure.

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But although the resulting circuits work on rather different principles from those invented by Dr Kilby, there is a sense in which all of this year's winners are linked by the theme of information-processing.

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