These chemicals speed up your heart-rate, shut down your immune system, digestion, and reproductive systems, allowing you to use all the energy that would usually go toward, say, digesting a granola bar for swimming like hell to the beach.

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Where a non-Urfa driver might speed up or slow down, it seemed, an Urfa driver preferred simply to honk his horn.

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Officials point to another poll finding that, of those who plan to vote in a referendum, 62% favour joining the EU. For this majority, the issue is whether the anti-corruption push will speed up or slow down Croatia's path to membership.

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It will not speed up the recovery -- in fact, it will slow down the recovery.

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Finally, down the road, Wi-Fi will likely have to speed up again--as there will come a day when 54 megabits per second simply isn't fast enough.

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Verizon initially said in a FAQ that it would slow users' access speed down to 256Kbps, "a little faster than typical dial-up speed" for up to three days - but later deleted the information from its site.

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On Speed Test, we measured speeds of around 4.5 Mbps down and 800 Kbps up -- on par with other devices.

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