Ms Bailyn approvingly notes the recent decision by America's National Science Foundation, which funds a big chunk of the universities' basic research, to allow grant recipients to take a break.

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There, once you hit the Connect My Glass button, you'll be asked to link your Google account with the service, and grant it access to basic account information, your location and your Google Glass timeline.

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Pertierra said a 1986 federal law supplies precedent to require completion of a civics component -- such as basic knowledge of English and U.S. history and government -- to grant permanent resident status.

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The European Community regards the protection of consumer data as a basic human right, one whose legal provisions, (The Right to Be Forgotten), grant legal provisions implemented in practice within the social and online context of European consumer behavior.

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