While serious bartenders tend to assemble their tools piecemeal, we layfolk often fall for the convenience of bar-in-a-box type sets.

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They also found two kitchen timer units, two toggle switches attached to the timers in a plastic lunch-type box and a vehicle battery in the front passenger foot well.

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The result is that many investors view EV as just another type of black-box reporting.

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Last Wednesday Google announced Instant search, an impressive technical achievement that shows probable search results in real time--as you type letters into the search box.

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The new Explore Box looks like a Google search box, with the auto-suggest drop down of suggestions as you type a search term.

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Included in the box: a power charger, USB 2.0 cable, a belt clip-type thing, replaceable battery, and headphones.

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That Europe hasn't realized the same type of productivity gains is partly a result of its reluctance to embrace the big-box retail model, one that allows a company to take full advantage of the world supply chain to obtain and sell goods cheaply.

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