He was preposterously fair-skinned, weak in the chin, cherubically curly up top, and had worn the same round wire frames forever.

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Kempton, a wiry, 59-year-old renewable energy professor at the University of Delaware with round, wire-rimmed glasses, is the U.S.' foremost proponent of what's known as vehicle-to-grid technology.

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The younger of the men, who had a round, moon face and wire-rimmed glasses, offered another figure.

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The proton makes its way to the cathode through the electrolyte, while the electron goes there the long way round via a wire that leads into whatever the fuel cell is powering, and back again.

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During the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, which Woods won wire-to-wire, Garcia complained that play should have been stopped in the second round because of the rain.

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