Teso told the crowd that he used flight-management hardware that he bought on eBay and publicly available flight-simulator software that contains at least some of the same computer coding as real flight software.

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She bought one on Ebay in 1997 and began photographing it against different backdrops, playing with the scale so the doll would look life-size.

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The FBI said Dutschke, a former martial arts instructor and unsuccessful candidate for various political offices, bought his castor beans on eBay and may have used a coffee grinder to turn them into a powder from recipes he downloaded on his computer.

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"Chinese consumers are increasingly coming to eBay and we have seen a 40% year on year increase of goods bought by Chinese consumers navigating eBay.com in English, " she said.

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In his presentation, Teso explained that he experimented on used FMS hardware he bought from eBay and FMS training simulation software that was advertised as containing some or all of the same code as the systems in real planes.

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The court heard Heaver was in debt and had bought his military t-shirt and beret on eBay.

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It's important to have a few good conversation pieces sitting around the house, and nothing sounds better than explaining how you bought a haunted mirror off two random guys on eBay.

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In June, a Mr Dalgleish bought the motorbike after seeing it for sale on the eBay auction website.

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He has held on to Amazon, Priceline and Ebay--the first two are down sharply since he bought--and aol Time Warner.

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