• Something interesting emerged in the results: "The network that normally processes your body movements is more active when you view an android, " compared with when you look at a stripped-down robot or a human, Saygin explains.

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  • "They are of no significance compared with the disease you're vaccinating against, " Dr Millington added.

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  • Investors might get a bit of extra oomph from their investment were their borrowers to get upgraded, but the downside for buyers of corporate debt is generally much greater than the upside, compared with equities: you get the money back plus a bit of interest if you're lucky, and if you're unlucky you don't.

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  • Stop yourself and focus on the fact that you chose salmon and peas for dinner and ate two helpings of mashed potatoes -- compared with the cheeseburger and French fries you would have eaten two years ago.

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  • Before the interview winds up, ask where you stand compared with the ideal candidate.

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  • Leverage is the act of borrowing lots, or taking on large liabilities, when compared with the amount of capital you have.

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  • If your current savings account is offering you pittance compared with the market leaders, switching to the high interest savings account seems pretty smart.

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  • Years ago you compared General Motors with Ford and Standard Oil of New Jersey with Texaco.

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  • Secondly, what is the risk involved in your proposed cash ISA compared with the 'cautious' investments you currently have, and why do you think you should change these investments?

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  • "The study points out that slipshod diagnosis can be a problem, and if you're getting diagnosed with ADD just because you're immature compared to your peer group, then that's not good, " says Dr. Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist with offices in New York City and Sudbury, Massachusetts, who specializes in treating children and adults with ADHD.

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  • The thing with divorce is that compared to death and the stress of relocating, divorce stays with you in life.

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  • "We compared what you see in these galaxies with what you see in the field galaxy population, other galaxies at the same epoch and distance, and there is a stark difference - far more star formation and black hole growth, " the Cambridge University scientist and Royal Society research fellow explained to the BBC News website.

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  • One is the economic damage from uncertainty--which is small compared with life and limb but seems large if you lose your job.

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  • There's no getting around it: it's a faster, more accurate way to type, even compared with innovations such as Swype, which lets you "type" by swiping your finger from letter to letter.

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  • In the most concentrated areas, he says, it could be compared to products you would clean your kitchen with, causing dry or cracked skin, or - in cases of prolonged contact - it can "lift off the top layer of your skin".

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  • "You're going to be compared with the laundry list of Sargent and Turner and Canaletto, " Mr. Van Doren acknowledged.

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  • As various Harvard and Yale professors will tell you, the curriculum is nothing compared with what it used to be before the dumbing down of American society.

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  • "If you compared a group of Asian executives with one of similar ages in the United States, the U.S. group would have more MBAs per head, " he told CNN.

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  • If you're a staunch ETF investor, you could choose the more diversified (compared with the BRIC) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (amex: EEM) to buffer some of the inevitable blows that come with the emerging-market trade winds.

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  • If you listen to conventional wisdom women, when compared with men, are lousy tippers and cheap with their charitable dollars.

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  • You are relatively safe in a car, compared with a motorcycle.

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  • It comes with only about 2.5 gigabytes of usable storage, compared with a more typical 16 gigabytes on other phones, though you can expand the storage by buying a larger memory card.

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  • Mr Brown may have run the economy and amused himself by dabbling in social policy, but late-night stints in the Treasury are nothing compared with the sight of Greenpeace demonstrators dangling from the rafters while you're trying to make a speech.

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  • Let's understand for a second that -- I don't know what Senator Graham or Senator Bond said in 2005 when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an analogy that if you compared the recidivism rate of detainees at Guantanamo with the U.S. penal system, the detainee rate is less for -- the recidivism rate is less for Guantanamo detainees.

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  • You always have to be more or less competitive, compared with someone else.

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  • If you use a full-service broker, it also will tell you how reasonable your broker's fees are when compared with competitors.

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  • "The big difference with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) compared to wind tunnels is that you not only get results, but also an understanding of what goes on, " said team boss Mario Theissen.

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  • Together with Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg Graduate Business School at Northwestern University, and several other academics, Mr Morris studied mock negotiations that used only e-mail and compared them with ones preceded by a brief getting-to-know-you telephone call.

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  • You can have a big hit with 4 million viewers, compared with 14 million in broadcast.

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