Richards said he did not object to Capello's candidacy but felt the FA should have waited for its board members to meet in person rather than discussing the Italian's merits via a conference call.

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Now five years in to this "nonburdensome" process, our work group has spent nearly 2, 500 person-hours in meetings and another 3, 500 hours on teleconferences discussing refinements to the diagnostic criteria for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

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But he shows as little interest in mastering even the most basic facts about the person he is attacking as he does when discussing the question of cell phones and brain cancer.

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In person, he and Ravi had maintained a wary coexistence, and it was built on not discussing what they knew and said of each other online.

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