Each intersection where one nanowire crosses another acts like a transistor, not much different from the tens of millions of transistors in current computer chips, just much smaller.
No improvements had been scheduled for the intersection where the accident occurred, but in its aftermath, legislators and state transportation officials were examining whether the steepness of the grade on the ountain could be reduced and whether trucks could be routed elsewhere.
Trying to raise the money, he joined hundreds of African migrants looking for work each morning at a highway intersection, where he was arrested and taken to the detention centre at the zoo.
Some of the fiercest fighting has taken place just outside Netzarim, though -- at a singular meeting point for the two populations, an intersection where settlers must cross a main Gaza thoroughfare.
Otherwise, continue for another 25 minutes to another intersection where if you keep going straight you will pass through stands of second growth birch and maple trees.
In 2003, Orasco and his wife bought a little yellow house with white trim for $150,000 not far from the intersection where I am parked and eating my lunch.
But within this web, there is a more intense intersection where the template for a 21st-century company town is being laid down.
But that is the intersection where my own passion for Beckett has been aroused.
"It's like an intersection where people keep crashing into each other," Schwarzenegger said, referring to the rules of the political road in California.
He and Ms. Montagne have also taken "Morning Edition" to battleground states for an election-year series called "First and Main," named for the intersections where they seek out voters for in-depth interviews.
