So what do we need to do to create more hot beds of entrepreneurial activity across the country?

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With all this activity, the rest of the summer should be a hot one at Fab.

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"We think that magnetic activity on or around the stellar surface creates the super-hot plasma, " Hamaguchi said.

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The blue square represents Windows (neutral, cool, in the background of everything like the sky in the XP homescreen.) The red square represents Office (active, constructive, hot like overheated brain activity.).

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The Index also showed that although fuel-cell technologies remained the hottest of the hot spots in cleantech IP development, solar technologies received more attention than wind power in terms of overall patenting activity in 2010.

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