If I were doing it all over again, a survival guide would have come in handy.

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Instead, he had to build it up step-by-step through a process of experimenting and failing, and then doing it all over again.

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So, in 2004, cities from St Paul to Davenport in Iowa plan to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Grand Excursion by doing it all over again.

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"It's pointless just bowling to a batsman and then walking back to your mark and doing it all over again, because they'll never feel like they're in a contest, " says Nel, who was on course to be a professional rugby player at the age of 18.

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The heavens, he observed, remained agreeably unchanged: he saw Halley's comet when it passed over Pennsylvania in 1910 and again in 1986, when he was in New Zealand doing research.

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Words still mean something and just as Republicans went far over the line last year with their accusations about death panels in the health bill, they are doing it again this year with taxes.

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