That's because an average shirt comprises several different pieces of cloth cut and stitched together in many separate processes -- and, often, places.

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That refers to the idea of having separate chips work together on number crunching -- and it's a driving force for the Intel processors in many laptops.

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And he sounded glum about prospects that the two sides will come together in the spring on a separate, long-term budget blueprint to address the government's fiscal problems.

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It is consistent with Gompertz's growth curves and ties together two essential features of cancer that researchers had long considered separate--cell growth and metastasis.

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Their batteries, outlined in Scientific Reports, are made up of five separate layers, each with its own recipe - together measuring just 0.5mm thick.

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Rather than a single screen, the S2 has two 5.5-inch displays that can be used together to display content, or used for separate tasks.

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The move brought together 1, 204 stores, but both Thomas Cook and Co-operative Travel retained their separate branding.

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The pair will get the chance to meet up to three times for short 15 to 30-minute intervals, following the pattern of how pandas would come together in the wild to mate and then separate.

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