"If all five are still clumped together, it will be like trying to bring up the big part of the Titanic, " Pearlman said.

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But for the process to result in a working battery, all five layers must stick together and work in synchrony, and the tricky step was finding a separator material that kept the whole stack in one piece.

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The Art Camp project aims to bring together artists from all five continents, in order to promote cultural and artistic exchanges.

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If the five nations wanted peace they could call together all the world and keep the peace.

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Ashe is putting together a batch of 50 houses, all under five years old, in St.

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One Armenian monitoring organisation counted five times as much television coverage for Mr Kocharian as for all his opponents put together.

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No one guessed five years ago that it would be the lowly app that would glue it all together and unleash the next hypercycle.

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All five fall under an NHS review of health services in the south east midlands, called Healthier Together.

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The lucky winners get a long flight in "cuddle class" with a complete stranger, a weekend together in L.A., all captured on camera with plans to produce a five-episode series.

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There is no analytic data behind writing this piece, simply that these are five startups that have packed my life with a bit more punch and spice than before while simultaneously connecting us all together and inspiring other enterprising entrepreneurs to think outside of the box.

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