But I maintain that we should be willing to take a scholarly look at hip hop for no other reason than it has grabbed global attention and sparked emulation in countless different countries and among varied ethnicities.

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So if you and a Firesheep user are in a coffee shop together taking advantage of free wireless and you visit a non-encrypted version of Facebook, the Firesheep user can hop into your account and take a look around.

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Take a handful of cultural influences (hip-hop music, professional basketball, Southern cooking and the black church), shake them together, and you still can't begin to approximate my students.

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Web search is designed to take a set of keywords (for example: "hip hop") and provide the best possible results that match those keywords.

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Take rap music and hip-hop culture, which sprang from a world that few people knew or understood.

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My son is a Hip Hop guy, and he is going to take this book from me, I know, as soon as he gets the chance.

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You go to the dealership, hop in the car, slam the doors, smell the leather and take a test drive.

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You can ski right to town, take off your skis, enjoy lunch and hop back on the chair or gondola without ever crossing a street.

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The filing describes a theoretical iTravel app that would store reservation and ticket information for just about any vehicle and stop along the way: planes, trains and (rented) automobiles would just have the traveler tap an NFC-equipped device to hop onboard, and the hotel at the end of the line would also take credentials through a gentle bump.

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After a few failed attempts to take down the tallboy with my crossbow and sword, we opt for a stealthier solution and use the blink ability to hop over some gates.

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