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  • The charges against him are serious enough to carry the death penalty, though Qatar is unlikely to want the publicity that would bring.

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  • When the first Siemens third-generation (3G) handsets go on sale later this year, they will carry the Siemens logo even though they will be made by Motorola, the world's number two manufacturer.

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  • Al-Jazeera manager Adnan al-Sharif said the station had never reported the arrest, though it did carry reports from other agencies - which later proved to be untrue - that Sheikh Muqtada al-Sadr's house had been surrounded by US troops.

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  • He has indicated that his party's atavistic defence of hereditary peers in the House of Lords may now be reconsidered: good, though it might carry more conviction if he had not held his two-day shadow cabinet summit this week on the estate of one of them, Lord Cranborne.

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  • Even though they don't carry weapons, working closely with soldiers, medics and others means that they are in the line of fire.

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  • The data do not include exotic cars like Lamborghinis or super-expensive cars like Bentleys--though those models certainly do carry high insurance bills.

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  • Thousands of policemen arrived to carry out a court-ordered eviction, though they found only nine tenants.

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  • So it looks as though we can all expect to carry on getting these calls - and will have to choose to ignore them, or perhaps string them along for a while to waste their time.

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  • Though the otters look perky, many carry traces of oil in their livers.

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  • Overall, the Nexus 7 provides the best tablet experience outside of Apple's iPad, though the Nexus 7 is far easier to carry around.

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  • Even though chaplains are considered noncombatants and are forbidden to carry weapons, they accompany troops into battle.

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  • Drake used her builder husband to carry out flood damage repair work around the country - even though he was not on Norwich Union's list of accredited contractors.

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  • And corporations are shying away from asking obese employees to carry some of the burden of their health coverage, even though they incur much higher costs than non-obese employees.

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  • The most interesting area, though, is the interaction between perfumes and natural scents that carry messages but do not have the specific properties of pheromones.

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  • Ultimately, the aim is to spur human space flight, though the officials acknowledged work on a capsule that potentially could carry astronauts or, less likely, a spaceplane with wings vaguely resembling NASA's retired space shuttles, remains at an early stage.

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