One of the only exceptions was the Rixos Hotel, where government minders came to check their e-mail (and charge their cell phones, as the power shortages got worse).

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He went to the bathroom, came back, turned his cell phone on, and put it down again.

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She met with him last December when he came to visit her lab, where she researches the ocean phytoplankton Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic cell on the planet.

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Dramatic testimony came from Michele Chapman, who read some of the letters Mr King wrote to her from his prison cell.

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The low point for the former Fox News Channel "mole" came three weeks ago, when he needed to be escorted from a holding cell in handcuffs to use the bathroom.

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