Others blame the look-at-me-I'm-so-special culture bred by egocentric social networking sites such as Facebook, My Space, and Twitter.
Mobile payments are a natural outgrowth of the familiarity Apple has bred by accepting payments through the app store.
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For years, geeks have secluded themselves in basements, studying obscurity with the sort of righteous pride bred by mainstream rejection.
The new strawberries are bred by crossing UK and international varieties that contain desirable traits such as being disease resistance, high productivity and temperature tolerance.
The winner was Sprig, bred by Captain Richard Pennington in 1917 while on leave from the trenches in the hope of one day riding him in the National.
Plants have long been selected by nature and bred by humans or irradiated to create mutants with enhanced resistance or tolerance to external threats to their survival and productivity.
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The only similarity with the Austrian populist he is prepared to concede is that they have both built up right-wing parties which have stood up to the cosy interests bred by long-term coalition politics.
Still, before Sandy hit, Fishell had approximately 800 different strains of mice, of which about 20 were uniquely bred by his team, each with several layers of modifications that he was tracking over several generations.
Nowadays, when most horses are bred by commercial breeders who sell them at auction, you know, their main concern is having a horse who looks good on a catalog page and looks like he's going to be precocious.
But this one, called Belfast Bred and organised by the Kabosh theatre company, is terrific, informative fun, accessible to everyone, foodie or non-foodie.
But in September, two independent groups reported that the same strain of mice, bred from animals furnished by the Brose lab, do not show any social deficits.
The rampant overuse bred ever stronger resistance by wiping out weaker strains that otherwise might compete with the drug- resistant variants, leaving only the balkiest bugs to take hold.
And oh, yes, there's Mario Vazquez, a 27-year-old Bronx-bred crooner who grabbed the spotlight by quitting American Idol in March.
At the Manhattan headquarters of the IRS, visitors were greeted at the door by a well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home.
Oxbow was bred in Kentucky and is owned by Calumet Farm, one of the classic Kentucky farms that was founded in 1924 and is now leased to and operated by billionaire Brad Kelley.
The San Francisco-born and Minneapolis-bred Buckingham has continued the tradition established by his late mentor and maintains a diversified portfolio of value stocks for the fund and for the newsletter, and has achieved the best investment performance of all newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest for the past ten-, 15- and 20-year periods.
Consequently, an economic landscape driven by ultra-niche lifestyle businesses bred from passion arrives, providing eerie levels of crafted customization presented in soulful and sustainable ways.
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Nickerson said the farm-bred salmon threaten the genetic integrity of wild salmon by breeding with them.
Is it because violence has literally been bred out of us, leaving us more peaceful by nature?
In the years leading up to independence, Indian artists often rejected the styles, techniques and even the oil-on-canvas medium taught by the country's British-bred art schools.
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He was aboard Battleship, a diminutive American owned and bred chaser sent over the Atlantic to be trained for the race by Hobbs's father, Reg.
Mr Mehdorn is spurred by the example of Deutsche Post, whose McKinsey-bred management has turned it from a sleepy sorting office into a global logistics firm.
The foxes bred well in captivity, but early releases were soon snapped up by golden eagles, so the park service had to first relocate the goldens to the mainland and then reintroduce the balds, carefully stewarding their eggs until the channel cleared of DDT.
By the 20th Century, the saturation of industry and labour bred organised crime (attracting the likes of gangster Al Capone), and in the 1950s an evolving shipping industry replaced thousands of workers with supersized cranes.
One collector estimates the value of a Kiger mustang has dropped by two-thirds since 2000, in part because of a ranch-bred Kiger boomlet.
They broke these up, in order to extract cardiac stem cells from them (these cells can be identified by the presence on their surfaces of a particular protein), and then bred the stem cells in tissue cultures until they numbered millions.
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By injecting the orb weaver gene into the father of Mille and Muscade, Nexia bred she-goats with mammary glands able to produce the complex proteins that make up spider silk.
Apple's success has also bred heightened competition in the computing, software and home electronics arenas, and any loss of momentum by Apple will result in both lost sales and a lower stock price.
Led by its guiding star, the comedian-turned politician Beppe Grillo, it was born and bred on the internet.
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