The heat fuses the two and excites the fault line enough to crack off any wafer sitting above it.

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That doesn't mean that great minds aren't already trying to crack the challenges that off-world farming presents.

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Nowadays a moderately skilled hacker needs only a couple of minutes to crack its key with an off-the-shelf wireless card.

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Tip to laid-off bankers: Crack a math book.

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Boston this afternoon for the EnergySMART 2012 Conference, which kicks off tomorrow at the crack of dawn.

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He got off the bed and heard the crack again.

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Now that his club has taken care of his playing future, it has been said that to be the greatest off the pitch, the superstar needs to crack the lucrative U.S. market.

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With an assassin on his tail, he sets off through Florence - and other locations - to crack codes that allude to passages from Italian poet Dante's classic work, Inferno.

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If those odds don't scare you off, consider too that some industries may be inherently tougher to crack than others.

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The U.S. market will also get a crack at reacting to news that UBS is preparing to ax multiple business lines and lay off 10, 000 in its investment banking division.

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