As a crowd gathered, a man with two kids sidled up against the protective barrier around the mousetrap.

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Placing a heat protective barrier between the skin and laptop, or placing the computer on a hard surface is generally recommended to prevent the condition from developing.

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The most urgent solutions, such as restructuring Greece's debt or building a protective barrier around Italy, require the most political courage something that Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy et al have yet to exhibit.

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For the remaining decade he and some hired engineers improved the aqua- barrier design, adding new products like protective sand-filled barrels and the first collapsible crash-cushions.

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Harvey Cedars, a narrow spit of sand in the northern part of the barrier Long Beach Island, has been battling with oceanfront homeowners for years over permission to construct protective sand dunes.

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