The Ravens and Flacco, 10-6 during the season, become distant memories three weeks before the Super Bowl.

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The bitter feelings that divided the nation during the Vietnam buildup and the Iraq invasion have become fading memories.

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If Stanford University's research into a new plastic polymer bears fruit, though, our scratched-up phones and tablets are more likely to become distant memories.

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They concentrate on the hippocampus -- part of the cerebral cortex which sits deep in the brain -- where short-term memories become long-term ones.

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Because of this, it seems to me that in the past decade or so, the half-life of our memories has become artificially extended.

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Memories fade and become less accurate.

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Judging by the responses on social media, the performance appeared destined to become one of the most poignant memories of the Super Bowl, regardless of what played out in the game.

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The function is built for busy lifestyles and will automatically become the default setting once set up, allowing back-up and sharing of treasured memories to be stored in an instant.

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"Mossadeq unexpectedly has become more of a hero for the younger generation as well, " Bakhash said, with memories carried on in families and lessons taught in universities.

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He married Michelle Robinson, a woman who already owned the memories and the roots, who was by birth the person he was trying to become: the child of an intact, religious black family from the South Side.

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