The apparent abduction gave new life and an extra dimension to the Philippines' long hostage saga, which had seemed to be entering its endgame.

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For oysters with a water view, award-winning clam chowder and classic fried seafood, Claudio's Clam Bar has a celebratory feel for no apparent reason except that life is good in the North Fork.

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But it is an ambiguous talent for him to have, because there are few apparent strategic advantages to seeing his life as lucidly as he does.

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I'm reminded of a passage written by Milan Kundera, author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being, ' in which he talks about starting with what you can see and then going deeper and deeper to the microbial level in order to find the life inside what is apparent on the surface.

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It may, indeed, turn out simply to involve that familiar feature of political life, the use of apparent philosophical disagreement as a weapon in a personal vendetta.

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These twin virtues are apparent in the middle third of this life, which lightly glosses over Friedman's most celebrated insights, such as his refutation of the bleak notion that capitalism is doomed to underconsumption, and his reassessment of the Great Depression.

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These heirs apparent are Edmund Tse , who heads international life insurance operations, and Martin Sullivan , who presides over AIG's foreign general insurance business.

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While commonalities between the 265-pound divorced former cage-fighter and the homely never-married Transcendentalist may not immediately show, their love of the natural life belies a similarity that soon becomes apparent.

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An increasing number of people have been complaining about the apparent mis-selling of "whole-of-life" insurance policies.

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Since then, life expectancy and wealth have increased dramatically, with no apparent interference from climate change.

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By 1991 it had become apparent that the plants could last much longer, for a total life of perhaps 50 years.

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Less apparent, but perhaps more forceful is the dedication these companies have to making life simpler for their customers.

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Now that life has changed my priorities, the flexibility of the system becomes even more apparent, more rewarding, and more valuable to me.

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