The short answer is that you hook up with content specialists, or you rip it off like my acquaintance.

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If you're planning to hook up with a venture capital firm, everyone knows you should reach for the top drawer, right?

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But more importantly, you can get information and clarification from the professor or one of his colleagues before you hook up with a loan provider.

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It's especially problematic when you hook up the cable with an included inline remote and mic, as it's simply huge compared to inline remotes on most headphones.

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The G450e-TV has a DualHead design, with two connectors that allow you to hook up a second computer monitor or a standard television.

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An overseas assignment sounds glamorous and romantic, but then you find it takes three days to convince the leasing company to hook up the clothes dryer, you can't communicate with the corner butcher and your kids hate their new school and long for their friends.

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With 2 HDMI ports and Component video in, it should accommodate whatever you wish to hook up.

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If you must take your own gear, pay to check it on the outward journey, then hook up with a local good cause via www.stuffyourrucksack.com and donate items to schools and orphanages on the ground rather than bringing them home.

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Yamaha PSR3000Yamaha's latest "home keyboard" models (if you were going to diss on them you'd definitely be calling them organs rather than synthesizers) come with the ability to hook up to a DSL modem and download new songs to pick out on said keyboard, karaoke tunes with lyrics to sing along to, or just muzak.

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