What is more, the Dow number, for instance, quickly looks absurd just like Rackspace and Zynga and the rest of the tech stars look absurd, right now.

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The newly redesigned cars are meant to be more like movie stars instead.

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In some cases, such as with our cover subject, Toyota Motor, or with past standouts like Swiss Re, the fault for missing may lie more with the stars (their challenged sectors, such as autos and reinsurance) than with themselves.

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Between them, the two techniques should thus provide a more complete census of the population of Uranus-like and larger planets around other stars.

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In its latest effort, a Steve Jobs avatar (clearly fictional because his trademark black mock turtleneck looks more like a V-neck), magically morphs into a ninja and starts flinging throwing stars around the airport when he's stopped.

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Advanced science instruments aboard future spacecraft, such as the proposed European Plato mission, could find many more Earth-mass planets orbiting Sun-like stars.

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Few action sports stars find themselves being marketed to mainstream consumers, and the ones who do are generally treated more like stuntmen than celebrities.

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