Around the year 1200, the Chinese refined the design, creating suan-pan, or the modern, wire-based abacus.

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It will deliver broadband coverage from space and connect users in remote areas across Europe not served by wire-based networks.

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The most agile and robust institutions in the emerging economies will jump to the next generation of educational technology the way Africa and much of China leaped over traditional wire-based telecommunications and into mobile phones and devices.

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The Circle is composed of 26 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines, wire services and websites based in the New York metropolitan area.

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U.S.-based hawalas work with banks to wire the money to hawalas in Somalia.

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The third was a multi-parametric mechanical test based on five different mechanical parameters linked to the voltage of the wire.

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Then AQT sells its cells to assemblers who can cheaply wire the cells into modules with the same equipment they already use to make silicon-based modules.

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If you take for example Mark Dreier, former New York-based multi-millionaire attorney who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, he spent this time filming the documentary Unraveled directed by Marc H.

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