But what makes Silicon Valley special is the way in which a lot of different things are mixed together to make the sum greater than the parts.

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Usually with family, things are always mixed--you know, its good to see your family but it's always wrought with emotion.

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Things were more mixed in the private sector.

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Spurs boss Ramos mixed things up with 20 minutes left, replacing King with Adel Taarabt, but the hosts were indebted to a brilliant Robinson save on the stretch from Farfan's drive to keep them at least in touching distance.

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As a sign of just how mixed-up things are, directly across the street is another kindergarten-through-eighth grade school that is run by the state.

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One of the things the DNA evidence shows is that all of us are mixed.

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All female environments take fewer risks (all of these things are on average of course) than all male environments but mixed sex environments take more risks than either all male or all female.

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Those that argue American sports fans do indeed love violence point to things such as (1) the precipitous increase in interest for mixed martial arts and UFC compared to boxing, or (2) the fact that hockey fans go nuts whenever 2 meat heads start fighting.

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The only things that cannot be disposed of in an environmentally-sound way are the heavily contaminated or mixed materials like cat litter and disposable nappies.

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Kicking things off this morning: Volterra Semiconductor (VLTR), which sells high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management chips.

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