My husband and I wasted gas driving around after the storm, trying to find a place with an open electric socket where I could plug in my dead laptop to finish a deadline project.

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Dead Space's developer, Visceral, has stressed players do not need to buy items in Dead Space 3 in order to finish it - but gamers have been concerned about what the innovation signalled.

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An investigation is under way after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon left three people dead and more than 150 injured.

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What are the odds Coughlin's training camp mantra of "finish" can carry this decimated, written off, almost dead (ahem, four-game losing streak) team to another spectacular postseason run?

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Skipper Brad Fittler then raced over straight from a scrum to close the gap to just eight points and, in a nailbiting finish, centre Russell Richardson had a try ruled out for putting his left hand on the dead-ball line before grounding the ball.

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