You can ripen very green avocados at home by putting them in a paper bag with a banana or an apple.

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The device fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices.

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The Trakdot LuggageTM tracker fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices.

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Since then, each item had engraved itself in my memory, frozen in time: a bag of dried chickpeas, a cannister of salt, a withered Fuji apple, and the rock-hard stump of a baguette.

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One explanation is that Apple products have become a brand-name accessory, the technological equivalent of another Japanese favorite: a Louis Vuitton bag.

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