But what if you could give them their own currency, and the currency was all skill based, so the more successful they were in the game, the more points or gold that they earn, that character that they bought for eight dollars became a storehouse of all that value?

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Mr Hurd, the charities minister, told the Daily Telegraph that the government would honour its pledges on universality but he would personally welcome pensioners who chose of their own accord to give the money to good causes.

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That matters because the structural reforms of public finances to which Mr Cardoso is committed require state governors not just to accept curbs on their own spending, but to back a tax reform meant to give the federal government more control over revenues (see article).

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But the congressional Democrats are unlikely to follow their instincts and give the Republicans a taste of their own.

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But to give a sense of how broad the attitudes of Muslim intellectuals are toward science and their own tradition, two figures Guessoum discusses are briefly worth noting.

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From our personal experience, this room will give children a space to call their own while parents attend to medical needs, but will also allow them to remain together as a family.

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But they give no quarter on the expensive physical security features and suggest that states deal with privacy concerns on their own.

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Women like Pirtle, who are still grieving but are able to smile and embrace the positive aspects of their lives, give Weikel an idea of what her own life might be like a year or two from now.

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We give applications the full run of our desktops, where they have their own icons and windows, but we trap the whole internet inside one overworked application, the browser.

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