"I do hear many babies scream, " said the father of 3-year-old twin girls.

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While the low-voltage Core i5 chip (there's a Core i3 option), 1080p IPS-based screen, 5-megapixel rear camera and front 1.3-megapixel shooter don't scream for attention by themselves among higher-end Windows 8 slates, there's an optical trackpoint and mouse buttons that make themselves genuinely handy in the non-Metro desktop.

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The rooftop Insanity puts riders through 3-Gs of terror, the X-Scream is a teeter-totter suspended 866-feet above the sidewalk, and Big Shot is a 4-G vertical catapult that takes riders to 1, 081-feet above the Strip.

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Daily, as many as 3, 000 hedgers and speculators swarm the pits to scream for corn, soybeans and U.S. Treasury bonds.

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