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The writing is crisp and the research meticulous, drawing on reams of documents made publicly available by congressional committees and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
The material includes research documents, notebooks, letters and images which are currently housed in six institutions in Britain and the United States.
All documents relating to nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programmes and research, whether military or civilian, were to be given up.
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The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems.
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