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  • So rather than steal identities wallet by wallet, or computer by computer, they lift names and Social Security numbers by the dozens, or the hundreds, or the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with access to personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks, state employees and debt collectors.

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  • The pair used all their experience to play some impressive golf, despite the fact that many tee shots were accompanied by the endless clicking of dozens of cameras while security men struggled to hold back the fans on the fairways.

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  • This ruling is very disappointing to the Cupertino firm, in the sense that only 2 claims relating to only one patent have been recognized as true by the ITC, out of dozens relating to 10 patents that formed the initial filling of Apple.

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  • "These pages and images are approved by your moderators, while you regularly remove content such as pictures of women breastfeeding, women post-mastectomy and artistic representations of women's bodies, " read the letter, signed by dozens of women's groups from around the world.

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  • Tensions continued to rise with the kidnapping earlier this month of dozens of Sunnis by the Lebanese Shia al-Mekdad clan in retaliation for the abduction of one of their members in Syria.

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  • Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois recently became the first GOP senators to endorse same-sex marriage, and a supportive brief was filed with the Supreme Court by dozens of other Republican VIPs, including several former governors.

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  • It's an unusually quiet Friday evening, and on the long, unkempt beach just west of the western Libyan city of Misrata, dozens of families have gathered by the dunes to watch the waves and the sunset.

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