As for the bowling, the reverse swing in the last two games, led by James Anderson, has shown Australia where Test cricket has moved to.

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One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.

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That means a criminal investigation led by the San Mateo police and district attorney is almost certainly in full swing, which is, well, crazy.

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It part of a wider swing to sustainable technologies, Haseloff says, but he doesn't see bioluminescent lights competing with LED and other low-energy lights in the future.

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