This is Madeleine Brand with DAY TO DAY, and with our identity theft protection tip of the day.

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Steps are taken to prevent repeated automated entries, and the brackets are downloaded and protected before tip-off on the first day of the tournament to make sure they aren't changed, said Lori Shaw of the Entertainment Practice Group at insurance broker Aon Corp.

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But this Energy Security Trust could well serve as the tip of a wedge that could some day lever open a new carbon tax.

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Tip the maid in your hotel every day, he advises, not just at the end of your stay.

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When I woke up twice in the middle of one night, my Up band recorded this and gave me a cheeky tip about sleep the next day.

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The next day, pedal a further 16 miles along country roads to bohemian Provincetown at the northernmost tip of Cape Cod.

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About 70 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, Lenny and a bunch of friends snuck out of the house to go tip over some Hadrosaurs that were grazing in a field in modern-day Mongolia.

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An army of snowploughs and maintenance engineers work 24 hours a day to ensure the ice is in tip top shape while the NCC's Ice Safety Committee monitors the ice on an hourly basis.

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