That would be like allowing fire insurers to cut off coverage for houses once they catch on fire.

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In both cases, the affected batteries can short-circuit, causing them to overheat, release smoke and potentially catch on fire.

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The petitions that catch fire on Change.org are almost always tied to human drama and not about tackling abstract challenges such as health care or immigration reform.

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Many of the other projects on show at the Faire were designed to catch the attention of children to fire an interest in electronics and home hacking.

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And on top of that, if a building is burning they are liable to catch fire.

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The company's ballyhooed bets on the new infrastructure paradigm -- MSN and NT -- have been slow to catch fire.

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"For a fire to keep on burning late into the night, you need the logs to catch, and the world's economic firewood has long since been soaked by oversupply and feeble demand now exacerbated by a post-bubble psychology discouraging risk taking, " observes Gross, who still believes stocks are overvalued.

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The Kindle Fire, while dilutive on a per unit basis, could help Amazon catch up to existing distributors of digital media, and may reinforce the advantage Amazon enjoys with Amazon Prime.

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