Ten-year-old Making Memories this year sold for an undisclosed sum to Peterson Partners, a Salt Lake City investment group that was an early investor in JetBlue.

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Robert Birge, a chemist at the University of Connecticut, is trying to combine them, by making computer memories out of protein.

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They can even interrupt the trial to remind the jury that, say, a witness who has been put under stress of having a gun put to his head in a dark hallway might not be capable of making the correct identification, or that memories fade rapidly a few hours after a crime has been committed.

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"There are a lot of happy memories there for six young kids making their first team start and a couple of others who came on late in the game, " said Dalglish.

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In "The Thrill of the Chase, " he lays out his unusual rags-to-riches story while sharing memories of his favorite adventures and mischief-making.

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Yet at the urging of venture capitalists with somewhat longer memories and plenty of cash at risk, firms across California's Silicon Valley and beyond have been making big cuts in their relatively small budgets.

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