She was hugely pregnant, carrying her fifth child, so they did not walk fast.

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Reply: On "The West Wing" -- I always have answered that it is pretty realistic, except that we are not as funny, don't walk as fast and most of us are not as good looking.

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We walk around with fast, multi-tasking tablet computers we call phones that are beyond capable of push messages.

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The firm and its architect, NBBJ, looked at how fast people can walk and measured the diameter of the space from multiple angles. (An "infinity-loop"-shaped pathway slopes through the building, connecting employees to each other.) In addition, the floor plan is narrower than typical offices, keeping teams in sight range of one another.

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Fast forward twenty years, and to walk the streets of any city in the U.S. is to see Americans of all income classes listening to music, texting, searching internet sites, and watching television on small rectangular objects that also serve as the once much coveted wireless phone.

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That's right, even high earners can walk away from old tax debts in bankruptcy, although if the IRS has moved fast enough and placed liens on your prebankruptcy assets, it may still be able to get at those.

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Not only am I a Muslim when I pray my daily prayers or when I fast during the month of Ramadan, I am also a Muslim when I walk through airport security or in the mall when I accidentally leave a bag of recent purchases unattended.

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