On its back, two strips of soft-touch plastic break the back into segments: a removable bit up top that houses the 3.5mm headphone jack, a micro-SIM, a vacant microSD slot (the phone comes with 16GB of internal storage) and a fixed piece at the bottom, above which you'll find the Xperia logo.

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Bulls and bears alike would welcome some type of pull-back to loosen up the action a little bit, could we finally get some follow-through to the downside today?

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That's the heartbreaking bit - bringing it all back up again.

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At Renault Mr Ghosn used a similar approach, although a bit higher up the market, to make a back-to-basics car called the Logan at the company's Romanian subsidiary.

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"The first thing that happens when we add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is it radiates some extra radiation back down to the surface, and we warm up a little bit, " Kirk-Davidoff says.

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You can record from any stereo source with a stereo in-line jack and won't have to get any specialized software to put recordings back on your computer--all you need is an analog or digital source at bit rates up to 160 kbps.

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