The coast east of Nice falls so steeply to the sea, that in a more peaceful or less sun-obsessed part of the world it would have been largely shunned by man.
Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.
Now, just two years away from 2000, the sun provides less than 1 percent of the U.S. energy supply.
The abundance of such compounds tells us that the sun grew up less than 1 light year away from a massive star that exploded.
Sun is no less energetic than Microsoft in pursuit of its own interests, but as things stand, those interests lie in recruiting as many Java disciples as it can.
To the sun, the Earth is a tiny speck: its diameter is less than 0.01% of the Earth-sun distance.
Still, revamping its internal server systems could save Sun money and create less of an environmental footprint.
The alignment with the sun proved to be less than .5 degrees off.
In 1989, Pluto was as close to the Sun as it gets during its long year - less than 30 astronomical units (AU), or 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
Sun loungers had a lot less competition for a seaside spot in Hammamet this summer.
Yet despite its being nearer the sun, the weather on Uranus seems less violent than that on Neptune, with the clouds being swept around at a mere 500 kph.
In 1985, the protest group Artists United Against Apartheid which included Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and U2 took a less nuanced stance and pledged (in a song titled Sun City) not to play there.
Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
When the sun is in this state, it also sends less energy out in the soft X-ray and extreme ultraviolet parts of its spectrum.
The sun was streaking the falling snow, making it less cold.
The state has an aggressive plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of means, from using more renewable electricity such as sun and wind power to requiring carmakers to roll out less polluting vehicles.
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Early in 1998 current hotshots Applied Materials, Intel, Oracle, Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments sold at 20 times earnings or less.
The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
That said, it is striking that in the boom years before the crash of 2007-8, none of the big banks replaced their so-called legacy systems with new modern ones - which some would see as another example of how they did too little sensible long-term investment when the sun was shining, and are now struggling to mend their roofs in less clement weather.
They are urging Thais to be a little less tolerant than the country's image as a magnet for night-clubbers and sun-seekers might suggest.
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What's more, Sun expects to hire the two-year college graduates for approximately 20% less than it pays four-year graduates, and it should be able to train and advance them faster because of their college studies, Deagman says.
Migration has slowed from a high of nearly 2 million annually in 2006 to less than 800, 000 last year, but the most recent numbers show that the Sun Belt states, though chastened by the recession, are far from dead, as often alleged.
The Sun can get at most 10% of this with Wang et al solar, less with Foukal solar.
Or what will help you figure out a way to use the sun and the wind to power a city and give us new energy sources that are less polluting.
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Of course, if Sun succeeds in getting more mileage out of hardware and software, it may end up selling less.
The Japanese auto industry is likely to remain a potent force, but increasingly manufacturers will supply their brands from plants that are less vulnerable to earthquakes, exchange rates and other disadvantages that have been making the Land of the Rising Sun a difficult place to do business.
Kepler encouraged Galileo to announce publicly his agreement with the sun-centered cosmology of the Polish astronomer monk Copernik, better known to history by the far less euphonious, Latinized name of Copernicus.
If they can replace 100 to 200 Sun servers or x86 servers with two or three PURE systems they will have lower hardware costs, less to pay in software licensing, plus savings in the real estate, power and cooling.
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