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Guy Wormser, Senior Researcher of the National Center for Scientific Research, France, left, and Rolf Heuer, Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research(Cern)in Geneva, right, during a press conference of the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Paris, Monday, July 26, 2010. International physicists announced Monday results from the world's biggest atom smasher trying to figure out how the universe began.(AP Photo\/Michel Euler)
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Project leader Alberto Broggi sits in an unmanned electric-powered vehicle in Parma. "We would like now to do a long experiment and try this technology for 24 hours a day, with diverse temperatures and traffic, to see if our systems recognize these situations," Mr. Broggi said. (Associated Press)
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A technician (below) controls an unmanned electric-powered vehicle in Parma by a remote device. The vehicles, equipped with four laser scanners and seven video cameras that work in concert to detect and help avoid obstacles. (Associated Press)
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India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal displays the prototype of a $35 basic touch-screen tablet computer aimed at students in New Delhi on Thursday, July 22, 2010. The device looks like an iPad and is 1/14th the cost. India hopes to bring the computer into production by 2011. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Jan 23, 2008 file photo, a computer user is silhouetted with a row of computer monitors at an Internet cafe in Shenyang, in northern China's Liaoning province. Word leaked out slowly, spread by tech-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn is now openly available in China. Is the new access to online pornography a policy change or a trap? It throws into sharp relief what many see as the main mission of China's aggressive Internet censorship: blocking content that might challenge the political authority of the communist government. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - In this file photo made May 25, 2010, Amazon.com Inc. CEO and founder Jeff Bezos speaks during the company's shareholders meeting in Seattle. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday, July 22, 2010, that its second-quarter income jumped, bolstered by shoppers who spent more with the online retailer even as consumer confidence fell overall. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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The Hampton model at Cheltenham Estates features a two-story foyer with dual staircases and a central hall.
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In this product image provided by Amazon.com Inc., the newest version of the Kindle DX is shown. The online retailer on Thursday, July 1, 2010 said it is introducing the new version of its higher-end Kindle at a lower price as competition among electronic-book readers intensifies. (AP Photo/Amazon.com Inc.)
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FILE - In this June 7, 2010 file photo, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings greets the audience at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, in San Francisco. Netflix Inc., releases second-quarter earnings Wednesday, July 21, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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In this product image provided by Rosetta Stone, the Totale Spanish (Latin America) foreign language software is shown.(AP Photo/Rosetta Stone)
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In this product image provided by Fluenz, the Italian language software is displayed.(AP Photo/Fluenz)
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** FILE ** In this image from video provided by the NAACP, Shirley Sherrod is shown speaking in March 2010 at a local NAACP banquet in Georgia. A conservative website posted video of Mrs. Sherrod's remarks, causing a furor that led to her condemnation by the NAACP and her ouster by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Until Tuesday, she was the Agriculture Department's director of rural development in Georgia. Then, she said, she was pressured by superiors to resign. (AP Photo/NAACP, ho)
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FILE - In this file photograph taken April 8, 2010, Apple Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs, second left, talks with senior vice president of worldwide marketing Philip Schiller, left, following an event at Apple Inc. in Cupertino, Calif. Apple Inc. reports second-quarter earnings Tuesday, July 20, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)
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In this photo taken July 15, 2010, a laptop displays the web site the smokingjacket.com, produced by Playboy Enterprises at the company headquarters in Chicago. Playboy says the web site is safe to look at while at work _ welcome news for men tired of throwing themselves over their computer screens whenever the boss walks by. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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FILE - In this file photo made Jan. 9, 2010, the Motorola logo is seen at the company's exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Motorola Inc. said Monday, July 19, 2010, that it is selling most of its wireless network division to Nokia Siemens Networks, a Finnish-German joint venture, for $1.2 billion as part of a planned breakup of the company. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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Video games are among items promoted in a "Christmas in July" sale at a Toys 'R' Us store in New York on Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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This image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 17:56 CDT shows that oil has stopped flowing from the new 75-ton cap atop the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday, July 15, 2010. Engineers will monitor pressure gauges and watch for signs of leaks elsewhere in the well. (AP Photo/BP PLC)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the Apple iPhone 4 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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In this file photo taken June 7, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, in San Francisco. Apple Inc. is holding a press conference at its Silicon Valley headquarters Friday morning to talk about its latest iPhone model. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)