He's often busy talking into one of his two mobile phones or networking with Kenya's most well-known stars.

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Starr's folks were busy talking to other witnesses, in an apparent design to spook Monica into throwing in her lot with Starr.

CNN: Tick, Tock, Tick... ...Talk

Republicans are busy talking about immigration and the sequester.

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Thousands of kids are killed or injured each year in crashes resulting from improper car-seat use or installation, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration further reporting 33 fatalities last year from heatstroke as a result of children being inadvertently left in cars (we can only assume the latter occurred while their parents were too busy talking on their smartphones to notice).

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At the same time, the two foreign-led private-equity groups are busy sweet-talking Netcom, apparently offering the firm up to 50% of whatever assets they end up with more or less for nothing, thus diluting their own interests to minority status.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms

It may be that we hear from the vice president himself talking about everything from national security to how busy Mr. Libby was.

NPR: Libby's Attorneys Pick at Russert's Account of Leak

Although ministers from Mr Tadic's party have been busy in Serbian parts of Kosovo in recent days, talking about developing them economically, Mr Tadic wants to halt Serbia's drift back into isolation.

ECONOMIST: Violence in the capital of Serbia

It was a matter of "real dismay" that people were talking about (and avidly watching - the Democracy Live website was a busy place this morning) a row about process, rather than what's important for him: the future of the Welsh health service.

BBC: 'No conniving' and 'no conspiracy'

While many of us are busy ferreting out the best deals on everything from tablet computers and diamond earrings to talking Furby dolls and Chia Pets, experts advise that this is also the best time of the year to garner the deepest discounts on a new car or truck.

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