The idea that beauty can point to scientific truth served Einstein well.

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None disappointed their network bosses, hammering home the selling point that the beauty of the tournament lies in its deep field and potential Cinderella stories.

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You take the point: the beauty category is, for all its beauty, somewhat dull, presenting the same sorts of images with the current face plugged in, once in a while throwing in a white-coated lab tech to convince us this is all high science.

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Now, Nordstrom, the Seattle-based fashion and beauty retailer offering apparel, shoes, makeup and other beauty products, is rolling out mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices throughout their full-line stores, as well as in some of their Nordstrom Rack stores.

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Taken out of context and crunched together, these fragments lose their point and a lot of their beauty.

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The beauty of this, at least from big pharma's point of view, is that when companies sued generic-drug makers and lost, they still kept copycats off the market for several months--and that often meant hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.

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Whilst Puccini's Calaf relentlessly pursues his Turandot, Mr Wei's prince at one point gives up his pursuit of Turandot in search of real beauty.

ECONOMIST: Grand opera in China

In doing so we lead with facts and figures, thinking that the beauty of our logic will be enough to persuade people to see our point of view.

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