Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.

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Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.

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This build-up transformed the war, driving the FARC away from the towns.

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To Fleming's target audience, emerging from both post-war austerity and traditional codes of morality, womanising was just another aspirational activity like driving fast cars and sipping cocktails.

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He worked as a coal-miner in his teens, was drafted in 1943, and spent much of the war driving a truck for a mess squadron in Arizona.

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While plasma displays also saw great gains, performance improvements, and price drops this year, LCD effectively fought the war on two fronts, driving down prices in small televisions while getting more competitive with plasma at 42-inch and larger sizes.

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