Members of the nominating committee, who screen the movies together, are allowed to shut off a film after the ten-minute point if a sufficient number of voters raise their hands.

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The tapes include tracks recorded at the Jive Hive club in Crosby, north of Liverpool, and at Storm's house, known as Stormsville, where bands including The Beatles would get together once clubs like The Cavern had shut at night.

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In order for that to happen, we all need to work together to protect Digg from exposure to lawsuits that could very quickly shut us down.

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If Hilton follows through with the injunction, Vonage could either have to shut down its phone system, used by 2.2 million subscribers, or scramble to put together a workaround that doesn't use Verizon's patented systems.

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Three strands of DNA were synthesized so that when they were put into a test tube, they immediately became a molecular motor--a pair of DNA tweezers, held together at one end by a third piece of DNA that could be made to open and shut by adding or subtracting a fourth DNA strand.

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So over the course of the day on Thursday and Friday, an emergency spacewalk plan was put together and given the okay by NASA. During that time, the pump to the array was shut down, leaving the station to function on only 7 of its 8 solar arrays.

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