Now BrightSource (and others) use huge arrays of mirrors to direct sunlight to a single spot high on a tower.
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With this, the scanning beam is not directed at any single spot, but moves around, so the plastic does not burn.
While both the left and right mouse buttons do require a solid press, they're large and responsive all the way up to the apex of the mouse, and there's actually only a single spot (on the extreme upper-right-hand corner of the right mouse button) where it won't actuate if pressed down.
Wall Street powerhouse Bear Stearns recently received a 100, 000-line chunk of fresh software from its Bangalore development team, a block too big to check easily or to spot a single programmer's habitual errors.
The second or third largest hotel on earth, depending how you count, the MGM Grand is a true Las Vegas icon: the city's largest hotel, a major concert and sporting event venue, full of nightlife and entertainment options and celebrity chef restaurants, including arguably the nation's single best fine dining spot, the 3-Michelin starred, Forbes 5-Star, Joel Robuchon.
If the Kings were to win the spot by a single point, that controversial goal against Columbus would represent the difference.
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Michal Martikan of Slovakia took gold in the men's single canoe slalom , taking top spot on the podium 12 years after claiming victory in the Atlanta Games.
But it was beaten to the festive top spot by the Hillsborough disaster tribute single, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by the Justice Collective.
At the 2012 World Whiskies Awards, for example, Suntory's Yamazaki 25-year-old was voted World's Best Single Malt, while Nikka won the top spot in the Blended Malt category.
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The Ivory Coast need just a single point from their last two games to earn a spot at the World Cup.
They scored their first UK number one single in September 2001, and have reached the top spot twice more, including a duet with Sir Elton John.
Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom's shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.
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The risk is that in single-mindedly looking out for inflationary icebergs, a central bank will fail to spot the rocks that lie dead ahead.
Every available spot of land is taken by a tent, and the usually quiet single road in and out of town can be backed up for hours before, during and after the holiday.
To fix these problems, Ketek grapples onto a second spot inside the bacteria, so bacteria can no longer escape the drug with a single mutation.
Pereda never saw a single rabbit in the jeep, only the skins, because the gaucho skinned them on the spot, beside the traps.
To fix these problems, Ketek grapples onto a second spot inside the bacteria, so the bugs can no longer escape the drug with a single mutation.
When we flicked the mouse on it was easy enough to spot it over Bluetooth on our regular Mac, but it only worked with tracking and single click -- none of this capacitive nonsense without a software update, naturally.
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As we cross the snaking, single-track bridge there is a glimpse of Loch Shiel, and of the monument that marks the spot where Bonnie Prince Charlie first assembled his Jacobite army that nearly did so well for the Scots.
Failing to spot one credit bubble is unfortunate, but missing two of the biggest credit bubbles in history within a single decade suggests the problems are more than bad luck.
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