"You're basically taking a fabric into a 3-D form, " she said.

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Basically, a guilty pleasure is a fix in the form of a story.

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When we married, we got poorer together. (Laughter and applause.) We added up our assets and there were no assets. (Laughter.) And we added up our liabilities and there were a lot of liabilities, basically in the form of student loans.

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We decided to exclude the traditional list of "simple machines, " which includes the lever, pulley, wheel and wedge, since most other tools employ some form of simple machine--a hammer is basically a lever, and an axe is essentially a wedge.

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In fact, Surface Pro will basically be a touch-screen version of an Ultrabook computer, the lightweight laptop form factor that Intel has been touting for the past year as a Macbook Air competitor.

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