• When the Obamas wanted a swing set for their daughters, Sasha and Malia, the chief usher, Rear Admiral Stephen Rochon, visited the factory in South Dakota to inspect it.

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  • Dr. Samuel Putnam , an assistant professor of psychology at Bowdoin College in Maine, says thrill seeking behavior is mostly genetic, and that signs of it--from climbing the highest tree to swinging as high as possible on a swing set--can be recognized from very early ages.

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  • The Register got Mitt Romney to set aside an hour during a campaign swing and interviewed him in a barn owned by a supporter.

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  • Labour's lead is so large that, even if the opinion polls turn out to be as wrong as they were last time, and there is a late swing to the Tories, the Tories still look set to lose four seats, including those of Mr Forsyth and Malcolm Rifkind, the foreign secretary.

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  • The president has pulled out of a Monday event in Ohio - considered a key swing state - in order to return to Washington to monitor the storm - although he is still set to attend a rally with former President Bill Clinton in Florida earlier in the day.

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  • Democratic candidates can make token promises to blacks which can then be conveniently set aside as they dash to the middle for swing votes, says the Rev Floyd Flake, a former Democratic congressman from New York.

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