But with Branson stepping on Murdoch's toes with an aggressive expansion into the media marketplace, the Australian-born tycoon looks ready for a fight -- which only one of them can win.

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Even with Landsat, it is as if each satellite was born an only child, and the next mission had to fight for justification as if there had been no heritage.

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Maybe I wasn't born in this country, but I'll sign up to fight for it.

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For our part, we must fight it with a boldness no longer born out of instinct but of experience.

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"I watched the Ricky Hatton-Jose Luis Castillo fight and I was thinking, 'That's the way it's going to be for my fight against Nicky Cook', " the Los Angeles-born fighter told BBC Sport.

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In 1899, Percy Julian, the inventor associated with the production of synthetic progesterone, advances in the production of cortisone, a better drug for the treatment of glaucoma and a chemical foam used to fight petroleum fires, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

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