He said the nature of lithium ion batteries means no fire extinguisher system will stop them from burning once they start.

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The burning questions: will a new star system emerge?

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There are still big doubts about CETP, and the new results add another burning question: could CETP inhibitors affect the immune system?

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Last year Nokia's Stephen Elop flung his company off what he described as a burning platform, putting the Finnish giant's Symbian operating system out to grass to get into bed with Microsoft's Windows Phone.

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After his famous "burning platform" memo, he opted to abandon the Symbian operating system, and choose Windows Phone rather than Android as the lifeboat to take Nokia to calmer waters.

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That pulse is capable of burning out the electronics in a car, including its engine-management system, without harming the occupants.

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Of course, carbon taxes (on burning fossil fuels) would provide the easiest way for countries to comply with the system, and each country could then decide what to do with the tax revenue.

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So his firm, SoftWide, devised a kiosk-based system that can store thousands of pieces of software on a hard disk, burning a disk only when a customer wants to buy a particular title.

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