To assemble these little critters, Ibiden has developed its own plastic resins and a new process for building up layers of plastic that contain intricate patterns of copper wiring (see diagram).

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Dr Eastlund has also been able to draw on subsequent research on turning solids into plasmas. (This method is, in fact, used to apply coatings to the insides of tokamaks.) And the advent of supercomputers able to simulate tokamaks should also speed up the process of building a working prototype.

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This process invariably throws up a consensus-building prime minister acceptable to a wide cross-section of parties.

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To do that, the system essentially bombards the space with an array of wireless signals and keeps watch on any changes in signal strength, building up a "picture" of the room in the process.

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Our consumption of energy has been steadily growing, the costs are increasing, and in the process we are depleting vast amounts of fossil fuel reserves and building up dangerous levels of carbon gases and pollutants.

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The process must be two fold: training of teachers and administrators and building up the youth.

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By contrast, asylum seekers who applied after 1995 will not be given special consideration, and the process of appeal will be tightened up to prevent a new backlog building up.

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