The police are unwilling to give details of the real-life case against Lord Archer, because they fear his lawyers would exploit such disclosures to claim that pre-trial publicity made a fair trial impossible.

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"My Voice Is in Your Head" opens Other People's Love Songs, an album that relates the real-life love stories of regular people, in this case the accident-prone Katie and Teresa.

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This imbalance is especially the case in biology, where factors in a real-life phenomenon are often misunderstood or never noticed in the first place.

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The case elevated the unknown waitress and aspiring photographer to a household name, with a real-life story of love, betrayal and murder far more alluring than any made-for-TV movie.

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Now, in a sign that virtual issues increasingly are bleeding into the real world, some "residents" of Second Life are taking virtual property rights to real-world court, citing California consumer protection laws to make their case.

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But the real and beautiful power comes when any technology can truly change a life as it has in the case of two-year-old little girl named Emma.

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