Heads of departments at the best universities, such as Toulouse 1, Grenoble 1 or Paris-Dauphine, waste time bending the rules to lure the professors and students they want, or to raise private finance.

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The Large Hadron Collider -- the giant accelerating machine that created the Higgs boson -- might just make a tiny wormhole for long enough that its time-bending effects could be glimpsed.

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It will apparently depend on Germany bending on its long-time opposition.

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Her tiny movements, such as bending over to closely examine a new item for the first time (even one that has no bearing on the game), give her a human feeling without treading into Uncanny Valley (where animation comes so close to actual human behavior that it causes discomfort).

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He's been on the road 50% of his time so far, visiting stores, holding rallies, bending his 6-foot-7 frame to shake hands with Albertsonians.

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By that time, Benevento had amassed a small army of keyboards, circuit-bending toys and piano effects.

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At the same time, on the internal side, CIOs must be primarily concerned with bending the IT budget curve away from low-value legacy infrastructure and toward new technologies that liberate precious funding for innovation, because those rapidly emerging marketplace realities touched on above will simply overwhelm traditional systems and traditional IT approaches.

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