The operating room itself contained a maze of plastic piping that twisted though the air between the heart-and-lung machine and the operating table.

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During radiation therapy, you're positioned on a table and a large machine moves around you, directing radiation beams to specific areas of your body in order to target your cancer.

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While the source is in machine-translated Japanese, that table comparing the Atom with Eee PC 900's Celeron and a typical ULV Core 2 Duo found in a wide range of full-sized, ultra-portable laptops speaks for itself.

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It also holds a work table by an Amish carpenter, a sewing machine and racks of fabrics.

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Slot machine handle fell 13.2%, while mass market table game revenues rose 8.3%.

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You went to the table for your election district, signed in, went to a big old steel mechanical voting machine made in Jamestown, New York, pulled a big lever, set small levers for all the candidates you wanted, pulled the big lever back, and were done.

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