That win gave the Tigers enough formula points to bump USC out of the BCS championship and into the Rose Bowl.

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Alas, baby bump will be slipping out of sight as its delivery draws near.

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If and when a neutrino does bump into something, the interaction spits out one of three particles an electron, a muon or a tau (the last two are heavy, unstable objects with most of the characteristics of an electron).

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She looked fabulous as she stepped out of the royal car, happy to show her baby bump to the media gathered outside.

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The flash adds a bit too, but that'll lay dormant until you pop it out via the devoted switch just to the left of the bump, on top of the camera.

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But the lack of local network build-out has provided a major speed bump.

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It is the kind of stat reporters usually throw out at the top of a story, since it sounds like a big bump.

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"If you have one hundred people and one person is out, it isn't even a speed bump, " adds Ted Clark, executive director of the Center for Family Business at Northeastern University.

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If you wander out into a gaggle of fellow humans in total darkness, chances are you're going to bump into one or two.

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That number will likely get a big bump at the end of the year, when the sponsorships currently underwriting another 100, 000 digital subscriptions run out.

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