He bought an electric saw and some lumber to patch the second-floor gallery, but every time he was halfway through a board a fuse would blow in the spider-haunted circuit box in the kitchen.

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The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics took riders from the Mall, through west London, out to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill.

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The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics in July took cyclists from the Mall, through west London to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill.

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Circuit has served as a warmup box for Justices including Chief Justice John Roberts.

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Yet the chain's selling woes continued against the tough competition of big-box outlets Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-Mart Stores.

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Pearse and others dream of unifying the mess, with a box that blends both optics and electronics, fusing the circuit-switched world of phone calls and packet-switched world of Internet data.

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He has plans to expand Rising Star in the coming years, tripling the size of the circuit by 2013 to capture about 30% of the country's box office.

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The counted and disputed ballots were then sealed with red evidence tape and, along with a separate box of uncounted ballots, hauled back to the Leon County Circuit Court by sheriff's deputies.

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