Today's Internet is a powerful way to communicate, given e-mail, instant messaging and chatrooms.

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But given a master's touch, even a commercial for instant noodles or a box of tissues can become art.

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Instead of a simple choice between autonomy and instant independence, they should be given the option of voting for autonomy with the guarantee that another vote would be held in three (or five) years' time on the matter of independence.

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Workers received an instant message to report to the lobby where buses took them to a hotel and then they were all given the word they were gone.

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