Gigabyte really talked up the sports car stylings of the X11, but this machine is clean and sleek rather than loud and gaudy like Acer's Ferrari-branded range.

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Authorities said they were checking whether an air pressure machine used to clean mail sorters may have spread anthrax spores.

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Most of all, I loved the convenience (no messy clean-up) of the Keurig machine.

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The Greens deserve some success, in part because of the way they have transformed themselves from hecklers standing on the sidelines of mainstream politics into a machine for representing Germany's clean-shaven middle class.

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"It could be from dispensing with a hand that wasn't clean or using wet rags to wipe down the machine, " Godard said.

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Its 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and full-size drive is way snappy -- the machine boots from cold to desktop in 26 seconds (granted, it's a clean install without any third party software installed).

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