The California-Colorado method is a way to get around this formidable barrier.

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Italian inventor Lucien Gambarota, who designed California Fitness's method of storing energy and using it to power lights and music in the gym, told CNN the concept is straightforward.

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Now researchers led by Alex Zettl of the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a method that will, they reckon, let people store information electronically for a billion years.

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Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, ordered a halt to executions after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die and a judge in California ruled that the state's method of administering the injections was cruel and therefore unconstitutional.

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It remains perfectly legal to manufacture sparkling wine in this country and label it simply Champagne, not method champenoise, not New York Champagne, not California sparkling wine, but Champagne, just as they do in France.

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After all, it was California that 11 years ago threw out the tried-and-true reading method known as phonics for a new, faddish method called whole language.

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California federal judge Marilyn Patel put it best in a decision rejecting a patent on a method for sniffing out online fraud.

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