Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube, " a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples.

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During the last summer games, NBC devoted a hefty slice of their 272 prime-time hours to the sport, pumping up the drama of Michael Phelps last games, and so on.

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Of that small slice, just 17% of prosecuted cases brought jail time--and the average term of incarceration was just six months.

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Second - as if you needed telling - retailing will for some time remain all about trying to win a bigger slice of a cake that cannot grow in any meaningful way.

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The real-time poll, available only to Galaxy Tab users, peeled off a thin slice of TV feedback.

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There are some options for first-time buyers under which a local authority will act as guarantor for the top slice of the mortgage, requiring a deposit of just 5%.

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This is what tantalizes Laybourne: If she can carve out even a tiny slice of the huge sums at stake, she might build a billion-dollar business in little time.

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China's capital may be racing towards the future at breakneck speed but sneak behind one of the city's glittering, ultra-modern tower blocks and you find a slice of old Beijing that seems to have been lost in time.

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