Two years later, in seventeen fifty-seven, he produced a small clock that he could hold in his hand.

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Smartphones prominently display the time and are already in our back pockets, so it can seem redundant to also strap a small clock to our wrists.

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The probes also contain a small atomic clock.

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Chen was relishing the renewal of his apartment lease, normally a mundane affair but currently no small feat in Beijing as the clock ticks toward the start of the Olympic Games on August 8.

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