The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.

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They include Applied Solar, which also plans to build power plants for Indian cell towers, and M-KOPA, a startup created by the founders of M-PESA, the leading mobile-payment service in Kenya and Tanzania.

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When Ike hit, it came aboard - I had power on at night until two a.m. so I was able to see it heading directly for our capital, Grand Turk.

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"There's an entrenched power structure that I'm pushing against, " said Mr. Alexander, a 48-year-old father.

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But whenever I experience his music, whether in front of an orchestra, or listening to the radio or a CD, I'm always transported back to that time when a little 12-year-old violinist was transformed by the power of Brahms.

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He generally rises at 10:20 a.m. and tends to fast through the workday, taking his sole meal at dinner, after a half-hour power nap in his office lair, an 8-by-10 room with nothing but a scribble-filled whiteboard, purple couch, two orange earplugs and an inhaler.

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