Owen may not have reproduced the wonder goal that shot him to world superstardom when he struck a post after 24 minutes, but the effect on Argentina was almost as devastating.

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Before the Communists came to power in 1949, travellers reported an eighth wonder of the world: a green if dusty city, largely unaltered from the medieval plan laid out under Kublai Khan and built upon by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties.

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Nonetheless, anyone who's watching the tablet market has to wonder why Toshiba is releasing a tablet behemoth in a world enamored with smaller devices.

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But when he sticks to his own subject, Mr. Wall allows readers to share his wonder at the circus world's arcane jargon: a "board muffin" (assistant standing on the top perch to help the trapeze artist) uses a "noodle" (hooked staff) to catch the trapeze.

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To early Europeans, America seemed a world truly new, and their words give voice to the strangeness and wonder of discovery.

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Wonder Woman has to remind him to clean himself up and address the world in a more dignified, professional way than he initially attempted.

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No wonder Siberia, remote to so much of the world, looks to Chinese eyes like a convenient granary.

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It takes a Norwegian to have us wonder why we're shutting down our cities as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

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But you have to wonder whether it will also turn out to be another step towards a post-crisis world of monetary policy, where the nominal rate of inflation is no longer the target of choice.

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