San Francisco decided to make another run with the same core group of players who went the distance in the first two rounds of the playoffs last season, then swept Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers to win their second championship in three years.

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Like Austin, San Antonio has grown out, not up - the suburbs sprawl away into the hotter, dustier and slightly less arable distance, leaving the old civic core unscathed.

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While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.

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He spends only a little time in the gym, for core work, though he plans to add strength training, a key to lifting his distance, once he's close to fully grown.

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And McCain's challenge is to distance himself from Bush's failures while holding onto the party's conservative core that still believes in Bush.

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During my trip this month, I took long-distance road trips across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Uttar Pradesh, and this core character of India was readily apparent.

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Despite the low pixel count however, there's an unspecified 1.2GHz quad-core processor beating away inside, running Android 4.1, which suggests that the phone should go the distance, at least performance-wise.

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