By January he had sold Levi's brass on a test of on-line sales in Canada, and in 60 days the virtual store was open for business.

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There were also injury doubts over Bulls open-side flanker Dewald Potgieter and replacement Juan de Jongh, from the Stormers, and the Springbok management will confirm a revised Test line-up later on Wednesday.

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The England squad travelled to Kimberley on Monday, although last Saturday's Test match line-up remained in Johannesburg.

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Damien Martyn's retirement and the hamstring injury which continues to keep Shane Watson on the sidelines have created an opening in Australia's Test line-up and Symonds is desperate to fill it.

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Beans will be turned into chocolate on Tcho's elaborate production line, which is being used as a test-bed for remote video-monitoring of industrial processes by researchers at Fuji Xerox in Palo Alto.

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"This means that by watching what happens to the positions of the quasars on the sky as the gravitational field of Jupiter moves past their line-of-sight, the scientists can test other aspects of the general relativity theory, " says Professor Shanks.

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