• Using this phenomenon physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.

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  • Haile Gebrselassie poses for photographs afterwards with the media, who have abandoned their usual cynicism in favour of unadulterated fawning in front of the greatest distance runner of all time.

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  • San Francisco decided to make another run with the same core group of players who went the distance in the first two rounds of the playoffs last season, then swept Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers to win their second championship in three years.

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  • The empty gaze of the old into the distance is mirrored in the gaze of the young into slot machines.

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  • In fact, of the players remaining in the competition, eight of the top 10 in distance covered play for German sides.

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  • And as I relaxed the afternoon away, the sounds of waves hitting the beach as the tide rolled in filled the air along with the rhythms of samba playing in the distance.

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  • For decades the Democrats have had enough solid support in the north-east, the west coast and parts of the industrial Midwest to put them within striking distance of a majority in the electoral college.

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  • It was, for example, able to record the wandering of a wren from Cumbria in the north of England to Devon in the south a distance of 400km (250 miles), and an astonishing hop for a bird so small.

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  • Typical is the Bay Estate on Corfu, a compound of three patrician villas (two with five bedrooms, one with four) plus infinity pool and tennis court on a five-acre promontory overlooking the Bay of Kaminaki, with the mountains of Albania in the distance.

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  • Ryokan Motonago may have the best location of any in the city, a short distance from the busy thoroughfares of Gion.

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  • The colors provide a stark contrast to the dark burned-out shell of a house that sits in the distance -- and offer a painful reminder of the tragedy that befell the people who lived within.

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  • From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.

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  • In particular, for those who are not well versed in this topic, Hess grounds the conversation in the possibilities of where technology will go in the future and in a history of regulation, distance learning, and technology that is useful to understand and heed.

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  • He was overlooking mud-brick buildings and fields, with the Valley of the Kings in the distance, when the explosion shattered the quiet of the morning.

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  • "We have in the pipeline a proposal on internet commerce, but it is not commerce in the sense of distance selling of physical goods, " Commission tax official Stephen Bill said.

    BBC: VAT plan for 'virtual' internet sales

  • We are, after all, talking about the sort of distance in time which separates us from the invention of agriculture.

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  • Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.

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  • In front of you, if the weather cooperates, the smoking peak of Arenal will loom in the distance.

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  • With students from over 110 countries, Warwick points to dramatic growth in the number of distance learners on its programmes from African countries such as Nigeria, as well as from North America.

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  • "We were up on hills looking across Jerusalem, looking across at the Dome of the Rock and we saw a plume of smoke in the distance, which was a rocket landing, " he said.

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  • As our hero gibes and quibbles with his gorgeous fashion-plate lover (Grace Kelly) and his gravelly nurse (Thelma Ritter) over the suspected murder (which we never see), we take refuge in the anonymity and safe distance of his long lens until the terrifying moment when the suspect stares right back at him.

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  • Still, the floor-to-ceiling walls of windows offered a mesmerizing, if a bit gray and dreary, view of the Thames and the newly dwarfed skyline of Canary Wharf in the distance.

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  • Despite not being able to match the likes of McIlroy or Woods in terms of hitting distance, Snedeker has studied his fellow pros who are similarly short strikers of the ball.

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  • The millions of people living in rural Africa will remain the victims of distance and terrain.

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  • Flying above the Southeast Australia in a small Cessna, I could see a small puddle of blue in the distance.

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  • Are we so hard-wired to identify gender, in others and in ourselves, that the thought of any ambiguity is a subject to be handled at a distance--or in the impersonal arena of public humiliation?

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  • Hearts had travelled to Glasgow boosted by Saturday's 1-0 home win over Rangers, the most recent of an impressive run of results that had lifted them to third in the Scottish Premier League and within touching distance of Celtic and the Ibrox side.

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  • This system visually and audibly alerts the driver in the event of a sudden decrease in following distance and briefly tugs on the brakes.

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  • All Max needed to do was sail north for a few hours and keep his eye on the dim glow of the city in the distance.

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  • He is forgoing Ironman races to focus on short course racing again in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (an Olympic distance triathlon is about one-quarter the distance of an Ironman).

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