Psychology professor Seth Roberts eats a half stick of butter every day because, he says, it speeds up his ability to do simple math problems by 5%.

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Henric stops, his heart speeds up, he tries to orient himself.

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The appeal court heard he had been "showing off" in his BMW sports car driving at speeds of up to 128mph, when he hit the camper van.

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The key is collaboration, which speeds up the learning process, he added.

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Not that the executive is about to accept Intel's position that ARM isn't meant for performance, as he saw the architecture scaling to high speeds whenever there was a large enough power supply to back it up.

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Apparently, Comcast's CEO was able to demonstrate such a modem in front of the public and cable competitors alike, and while he claimed that it could reach speeds of 150Mbps, it was the testing that got everyone all riled up.

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The data compression technique he used allowed images to be sent over what were then slow dial-up connections at much faster speeds than had been previously possible.

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Still, he believes that services like video-over-mobile at 4 megabits per second and Internet TV service at speeds up to 20 megabits per second will get Telecom Italia out of its doldrums.

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