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  • In that sense, their site also taps into a heavy metal fan base and subculture that geeks out about of the same things.

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  • The French and Italians share that pleasure in the bandying about of ideas, and have taken to their heart another, now almost forgotten, English novelist.

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  • The Piper analyst also sees a major impact on the LED sector, where Japan provides about 40% of global supply, about half of that from Nichia.

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  • Mr Kaplan's involvement with the second symphony has made it probably the most talked-about of Mahler's works, diverting public attention away from the morbidity of his last great pieces.

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  • Which means that bringing a pocket full of Canadian change into the US is in fact a breach of the Helms Burton Act: not something that anyone ever bothers about of course.

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  • But we know that this kind of spending, domestic discretionary spending, which has been the focus of complaints about out-of-control federal spending, makes up only about 12 percent of the entire budget.

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  • Programmable Web, a site that tracks mashups, figures that about half of the mashups it sees are based on Google's map business and about half of all mashups fund themselves using the Google ad machine.

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  • Now, what I believe, that our secondary education needs to do a better job of teaching our children about the history of slavery, about Jim Crow, and about all of those problematic areas in this country.

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  • "If we get this right, I cannot think of a bigger thing to be working on right now, " said Paul Davison, CEO of Highlight, one of the most buzzed-about of such apps to emerge this year.

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  • The other thing is that the reason people in the Arab world became very irate about all of this was not about physical abuse or torture, but it was about the desecration of the Koran and Islam.

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  • Who shall stand against the common wisdom when it is wrong about deterrence, wrong about the causes of war, wrong about the state of the world, wrong about the ambitions of ascendant nations, wrong about history, and wrong about human nature?

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  • The values that we are fighting for and care about of hard work and looking out for one another, those are not rich values or poor values, or business values or worker values, or red, white, black, Asian -- it doesn't matter -- they are American values. (Applause.) They are American values.

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  • With a crossover point of about 300 percent of FPL for those aged 30 to 44, we estimate that about one-third of those older than age 29 with incomes greater than 138 percent FPL will see higher premiums even after accounting for premium assistance.

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