"In the course of all the experiments, we release (the antihydrogen atoms) and look for their annihilation, " said Jeffrey Hangst, spokesperson for the experiment.

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If you ask his competitors, Gates has been known for the ruthless annihilation of adversaries--and a tendency to declare victory perhaps a bit early.

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Come October 15 it will be 50 years since the start of the Cuban missile crisis, when the U.S. and the Soviets were on the brink of nuclear annihilation for 13 days as a result of the Soviets trying to build missile bases on the island of Cuba.

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Founded in 1998, the game studio has been responsible for classics like Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, and Supreme Commander.

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One possible explanation for these positrons is the mutual annihilation of the matter and antimatter forms of a type of dark matter called weakly interacting massive particles, also known as WIMPs.

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In fact, a stock can go to zero (remember a company called Enron?) while it would take a catastrophic event (think nuclear annihilation or an asteroid hitting the earth) for the same to happen to the stock market as a whole.

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In 1990, facing electoral annihilation, the party co-opted him to serve as prime minister for eight weeks.

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For if our nation and our precious freedoms are worth defending with the threat of annihilation, we are surely worth defending by defensive means that ensure our survival.

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