After polishing off the pizza, the volunteers were presented with three generous platters of oatmeal-raisin, chocolate-chip and double-chocolate-chip cookies, and asked to rate them.

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The Voodoo 4 4500 PCI video accelerator board will feature a single VSA-100 chip, a fill rate of 333-367 megapixels per second and 32M bytes of video memory.

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Quad-core Qualcomm SnapDragon S4 Pro features a 40% higher performance rate than the existing quad-core chip.

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DWS, the mutual-fund arm of Deutsche Bank, money is still flowing in, if not at the same rate as in the first half of the year, and not just into blue-chip investments.

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Dr. ANDREW EINSTEIN (Cardiologist, Columbia University): Using beta-blockers or other medications to lower patient's heart rate, which in many cases will chip the radiation dose down by minimizing the number of images which are taken, and matching the technical parameters such that the patient doesn't receive too many x-rays.

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The one-time blue-chip insurer was thrown into turmoil in 2000 after it lost a legal battle over bonus payments to guaranteed annuity rate policies.

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