Such branches can cause a processor to waste valuable time dealing with the ancillary book-keeping that comes with every branch.

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"Paper might be the most consumer sensitive of all because it's used in packaging - and packaging is used for everything, " said Minter, who has just finished writing a book about the globalization of the waste and recycling industry.

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Between work and an internet connection full of unlimited possibilities to waste time, if I am going to stop everything to pick up a book, that book better be damn good.

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He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, and is probably best known for The Waste Land, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats - which was later became Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.

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