Ray must use deadly force on ‘CSI’ finale

The season finale’s first victim was Houston Dobbs, who was shot in the head. Shoe prints led the CSIs to believe there were two men with him. The gun used was a .38 or a .357, but Riley also found the bullet for a .22 in the car’s backseat. It came from a concealed weapon belt buckle (this handy item actually has a working .22 built into the buckle) that belonged to a collector named Wiley Schindler.

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Man sentenced for planting syringe in potato chips

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to five years of probation for planting a syringe in a bag of potato chips. The man pleaded guilty in November to tampering with a consumer product. A federal judge ordered him Thursday not to contact Frito-Lay Corp. during his probation.

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AMD rolls out new server chips

A year ago, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. worsened its financial problems by botching the launch of a powerful new server chip. The flubbed introduction gave bigger rival Intel Corp. eight months to steal market share.

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Researchers look to air-condition computer chips

Purdue University scientists have taken a page from air conditioner technology in their quest for a new way to cool down ever-more powerful computer chips. Their experimental system, which flushes a refrigerant through tiny channels cut into chips, is intended for the high-power electronics found in radar and advanced weapons systems such as lasers, said Issam Mudawar, a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue.

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IBM developing miniature pipes for chip cooling

Since a computer microprocessor is veined with electric circuitry, it might seem like a bad place to put water. But IBM Corp. researchers believe that sloshing water through hair-thin pipes inside chips will solve a vexing problem facing next-generation computers.

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South Korea's Hynix hopeful after WTO ruling on Japan tariff

Hynix Semiconductor Inc. of South Korea said Wednesday it expects to sell more dynamic random access memory chips in Japan after a World Trade Organization ruling.

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Can junk food ever be good for you?

At a time when Americans are struggling with obesity and not eating , some major food marketers claim they have an answer. Keen to tap into consumer interest in healthier fare, companies are rolling out snacks sprinkled with what they say are real servings of fruits and veggies.

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Arizona Issues Warning About Poker Chips

Arizona health regulators issued a warning Thursday about a popular brand of high-end poker chips that may contain high levels of lead. The warning about Paulson brand chips — used in many casinos and sold at retail to gamblers — came a day after ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix aired a story about the potential contamination.

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Man Claims He Found Fried Mouse in Chips

Frito-Lay Inc. says it will investigate a Havre man's "unsubstantiated claim" that he found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.

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IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

The powerful "Cell" microprocessor that fuels Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 video game console will be available in IBM mainframe computers so those high-performance machines can run complex online games and virtual worlds.

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Frito-Lay: Mouse Got Into Bag at School

A dead mouse that an eighth-grader found in a bag of potato chips probably chewed its way in after the snack was delivered to the school, a company spokeswoman said Monday.

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School: Dead Mouse Found in BBQ Chips

An eighth-grader said he found a dead mouse inside a bag of Frito-Lay barbecue potato chips he bought in a school lunch line, and his claim appears credible, school officials said.

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Chattering Chips Enliven Tokyo Stroll

Downtown strollers looking for directions, store guides or historical tidbits will be able to get an earful without talking to anyone — thanks to 1,200 computer chips embedded around Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.

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2 Workers Have Chips Embedded Into Them

Tiny silicon chips were embedded into two workers who volunteered to help test the tagging technology at a surveillance equipment company, an official said Monday.

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12-year-old pupil at a Liverpool school where fatty drinks and snacks are banned has been suspended for ''crisp dealing'', it is reported.

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The British have long enjoyed food with a bit of bite. And 200 years ago, an Indian migrant opened Britain's first curry house to cater for the fashion for spicy food.

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For the last 30 years, the computer industry has bragged about its achievements. And when the industry was excited about a breakthrough, it expected — even demanded — that consumers get excited, too. But that less-than-symbiotic relationship may be coming to an end.

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"A few weeks ago, Chicago commuters witnessed the unbelievable -- as busy subway travelers at the Jackson stop bustled between trains in a tunnel, many were shocked to see that the ceiling tiles had broken away above them to reveal the fat bulbs of potatoes growing out of clumps  …

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Broadcast network CBS will be advertising its fall TV season with a video-chip ad embedded in an issue of Entertainment Weekly.

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A woman pleaded no contest last week to prostitution charges, accused of agreeing to be paid for services with a box of chips by a man who said he was a Frito-Lay employee.

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Do You Find Yourself Always Snacking Even After You Just Ate?

I was recently reading the May 2009 issue of Women's Health magazine and there was a small article on page 28 that read "Step Away from the TV." To the right, under the big, bold, black heading, was a picture of a food tray.

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Bill Watkins, the outspoken former chief executive of Seagate, wants to make a thinner iPod.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists say they may have found out why the great British chip smells so irresistible: a complex blend of scents that includes butterscotch, cocoa, cheese and flowers. The aroma has been unpicked by food scientists at Leeds University.

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The world's largest chip maker is closing two assembly test facilities in Penang, Malaysia and one in Cavite, Philippines and will halt production at a plant in Hillsboro, Ore. It will also end wafer production at a facility in Santa Clara, Calif.

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British tastebuds will never be the same, as a gaggle of outlandish potato chip varieties – including Cajun squirrel – hit store shelves across the country. The new variety is among six flavours introduced Friday by Walkers, a British chip maker.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Swedish prosecutors have brought charges against a 15-year-old boy accused of ripping another boy's bag of chips.

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A 15-year-old Swedish boy is facing as much as six months in prison over a ripped bag of chips.

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Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.

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IBM is getting around the physical limitations of lithography methods by using mathematical techniques called computational scaling.

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As a cook, I gravitate toward fresh, whole ingredients. I prefer whole foods as an eater, too -- unless there's an open bag of potato chips nearby. My usual strategy is to avoid proximity to open bags of chips.

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Swiss Government Averts Football Chips Crisis

RICHARD FARMER'S DAILY POLITICAL LETTER Friday, 9 May 2008 The Swiss Government has changed import regulations to avert a crisis threatening the Euro 2008 Soccer tournament. Competition organisers feared the anger of visiting fans would be aroused by a shortage of chips at venues.

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Interesting article about the plans to support the convergence of these two technologies. What do you think?

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It works like an Intel chip, but looks like the Cell processor. That's one way of describing the energy-efficient multiple core processors being devised by secretive Montalvo Systems.

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REDMOND, Wash. — When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the "software spiral" — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power.

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Women who eat crisps or chips every day may double their chances of ovarian or womb cancer, say scientists. The fears surround acrylamides, chemicals produced when you fry, grill or roast a wide range of foods.

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An investigation has been launched into the circumstances that allowed a man to be released from custody, only to kill a passenger on a bus a few hours later - despite an outstanding warrant for his arrest.

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Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program.

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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — At Frito-Lay's factory here, more than 500,000 pounds of potatoes arrive every day from New Mexico to be washed, sliced, fried, seasoned and portioned into bags of Lay's and Ruffles chips.

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New multicore machines are basically small-scale supercomputers, and in order to take full advantage of the computing power they offer, software must be written with multiple cores in mind--a time-consuming and difficult task.

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