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  • When a patient calls 111, an operator - who is trained in the same way as a 999 operator - can send out an ambulance, put someone straight through to a nurse, book an out-of-hours GP appointment, or direct the caller to a pharmacist or dentist.

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  • Just last week, our Air Force -- our own Air Force -- used an advanced biofuel blend to fly a Raptor 22 -- an F-22 Raptor faster than the speed of sound.

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  • Allen hit a jumper, Norris Cole threw a half-court lob pass to Wade for an alley-oop dunk and Allen made a 3-pointer, giving Miami an 84-77 lead.

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  • Every time the enzyme connects two bases--an A to a T or a C to a G--an electrically charged ion is released and detected by sensors on the machine.

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  • The Bush Administration will likely agree to do its part to secure a series of "quiet" debt refinancings for the USSR among G-7 nations on a bilateral basis -- an effort to help the Soviets find ways to avoid a formal Paris Club rescheduling which Treasury Secretary Brady in London strongly discouraged the USSR from undertaking.

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  • Sorry, it's about to get all geeky in here: The longitudinally midmounted V8 transfers power to the limited-slip e-diff through a Koenigsegg-designed seven-speed gearbox, with a twin-disc dry clutch and an 11-disc wet clutch arranged sequentially, working cooperatively, rather like a dual-clutch automated manual transmission.

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  • President Obama and his allies insist that that law - which is incessantly and incorrectly called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the nickname for a Clinton-era Defense Department regulation that was intended to undermine the statute by allowing gays to serve as long as they kept their sexual preferences a secret - is a throw-back to an by-gone era.

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  • Now it takes a day-and-a-half, thanks to an upgrade of the Friendship Highway, as the China-Nepal road is called, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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  • Lawyers for the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) claim the two men - a lawyer and an economist - as representatives of a mysterious offshore company, ignored an injunction against any transfer of debts surrounding the mall.

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  • The original design was chosen in 1927 by an architect - Sir Reginald Blomfield - who wanted a design closer to the true sense of a pylon - an Egyptian gateway to the sun.

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  • Despite lacking consistency at present, 16-year-old Broady - a recent practice partner for Rafael Nadal - possesses an impressive physique, has a calm on-court demeanour, is light on his feet and benefits from a potent forehand.

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  • He added the revised timetable would make the journey between the capital and Cheltenham Spa station nearly two-and-an-a-half hours.

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  • Rather than simply buy a pied-a-terre in an enviable locale by which to park money as a long-term investment, more wealthy buyers are snapping up properties that they can rent out as income-producing assets.

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  • The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.

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  • Buy a mutual fund with a 5.75% front-end load--an alias for a commission--from the same broker, and the commission won't be on the bill.

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  • Lord Lipsey - a member of a cross-party group opposed to an elected House of Lords - believes changes would come at too high a price in an age of spending cuts.

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  • It was a casual, get-to-know-you visit, a meeting of an up-and-coming photographer and four rising pop stars arranged through Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

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  • Frischling said the agents threatened to call a client -- an airline -- and have them sever his contract, saying he was a security threat.

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  • Reagan had just been given the award -- a 2-foot-high crystal statue of an eagle -- when a man named Richard Paul Springer, 41, walked through the ring of security around the former president and onto the stage, grabbed the crystal eagle, smashed it forcefully to the floor (with Reagan being struck by the flying glass), and commandeered the microphone.

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  • The Red Storm went ahead 26-19 when Pointer hit a 3-pointer to cap an 8-0 run with a minute to go in the first half.

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  • Researchers have trapped a rainbow - slowing light to a near-stop - in an array of 25, 000 "invisibility cloaks", each smaller than a hair's breadth.

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  • The president told the group - three pipe-fitters and a plumber - at an Irish pub in downtown Orlando that he was trying to figure out how to help the building industry.

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  • Michael Egan made a mid-nine-figure fortune building Alamo Rent-A-Car into an industry powerhouse, and though he isn't much of a gear-head, his decades in the travel business convinced him that we haven't even begun to see the changes that will be wrought by information technologies.

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  • Salinas says, unapologetically, that his bank charges customers--the poorest inhabitants of a poor nation--an average interest rate of 50% annually, or 1% per week.

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  • The smartGPS will be available in March (price TBA) with applications for both iOS and Android. (Note: these won't take the place of Magellan's existing apps.) Turn-by-turn navigation will be a premium feature -- an in-app upgrade.

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  • "When they were in the job, they knew with complete and unerring certainty that on the economy, we were playing five-a-side football against an 11-a-side on a full international pitch, " he said.

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  • The longer it takes them to figure out how to process, for example, a discarded Treo 600--a 32-megabyte gadget with phone, e-mail, Web access, an organizer and a camera--the less ReCellular will be able to resell it for.

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  • Smith says she's heard of some pushback among parents -- including the mother of an 18-month-old and a 3-year-old who told an educator who subscribes to Smith's campaign that her children already knew how to handle weapons.

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