In the meantime, internet users in India may have something of a golden age to look forward to.
The years leading up to the crisis might look like a golden age to many of us now.
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At a set of traffic lights, a boy, possibly my age, although his thinness made him look younger, tapped on my window.
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Three fine actors were lured into this farrago: Ewan McGregor plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, Liam Neeson is his Jedi mentor, Natalie Portman plays a teen-age queen, and all of them look as if they were recently abused by robots.
And the belly, and the pubic hair the fat-raddled thighs of a woman of this age, you would not want to look at.
Rather they look on lots of children as a means of helping them in their old age.
And, really, when you look at the lowest income, most of that is just simply a factor of age and marriage.
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Singapore Airlines offers up to 14 days a year for mothers who need time off to look after sick children under the age of 6.
But at least, points out Miss Brett, if 18 becomes the legal minimum, then even allowing for the difficulty of telling a child's age in places where malnutrition may make him look younger than he is or hard labour make him older 13- and 14-year-olds are less likely to end up clutching Kalashnikovs.
Of course I knew that our child would have a higher risk of things like Down syndrome because of my age, but when you actually look at the statistics, the chances of that actually happening are so slim.
While male presenters entering their 50s could look forward to two more decades in the business, she said, women of a similar age felt they were "on borrowed time and that is just not right - it is a combination of age and sex discrimination".
Its age, and the finite speed of light, means no astronomer can look beyond a distance of 13.7 billion light-years.
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You have to look far to find one in most offices, and pretty much never on a man over the age of 30.
Essentially, the information age is reaching a new level where it requires us to look beyond static or fixed pieces of content such as documents, papers, individual posts, or even video content.
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The researchers looked at data on children featured in the British Cohort Study - a large group of people born in April 1970 - to look at the link between reading and maths scores at age 10, and earnings at ages 30, 34 and 38.
Although the study did not explicitly look at the issue of asset transfers, it paints a fascinating picture of people who turn to Medicaid as they age.
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Even in an age of growing mass customization, producing a device, and in particular a device that needs to look designed, with no rough edges, has unavoidable startup and machining costs.
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