But since then the currency has steadied somewhat, thanks in part to adoption by key websites such as Reddit and Kim Dotcom's file storage site Mega.

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The Dutch got the better of the South Americans thanks to an opportunist goal from Sylvia Karres and strikes from Miek van Geenhuizen and Kim Lammers.

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Instead, thanks to the professional arms controllers, the United States is going to help perpetuate Kim Jong-Il's hold on power, in exchange for his shutting down an obsolescent reactor and his promises to keep talking, probably endlessly and certainly inconclusively, about his growing nuclear weapons stockpile.

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Thanks to its proximity to the mountains, Lake Placid offers "just what the Adirondacks offer, " said Kim Rielly, spokeswoman at the Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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