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But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
ECONOMIST: Just press print
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In the process, it also underscored the yawning vacuum of power that is now emerging as the United States once again tries to disengage from overseas responsibilities.
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Mr Diallo has been sent to fill the vacuum left by the death of the previous mediator, Alioune Blondin Beye, and to steer the peace process back on to solid ground.
ECONOMIST: Angola
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In Swat, for example, it seems to think it would be fruitless to pulverise the Taliban, and in the process kill many civilians, while Pakistan's civil institutions are too weak to fill the vacuum that would be created.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan and the Taliban
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We're trying to change round decades, indeed centuries of conflict so what we do know is that where there is a political vacuum, where there is instability in the democratic institutions then the men of violence will try to wreck this peace process.
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Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors, " which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth.
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