The fine, fragrant talc dusting on the dresser, the brush webbed in silver hair, the fifty-year collection of black handbags stuffed in the top of the closet- it was all too much, too much.

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This year the statue was given a dusting and put on display, although its future is still unclear.

ECONOMIST: Ruth Dyk

Though metropolises like New York may be used to the white stuff, London tends to get little more than a dusting of snow on most winters, which made the 10.0 inches or so of snowfall across the capital all the more startling on Monday.

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On the occasions when she spent the night with us, she would carry out her tasks in the house with renewed enthusiasm, insisting on dusting the bookshelves again, cleaning the bathrooms one more time, all the while cracking jokes at which no one laughed.

NEWYORKER: Naima

So civil servants have been dusting off their manuals on what to do in case of a hung parliament, and the Lib Dems elaborately refuse to set out the terms on which they would co-operate with either main party in a formal coalition or an informal alliance.

ECONOMIST: A briefing on the British election

It'd be easy to lay the blame for these software quirks on its dusting of a UX, but it's more likely that the company simply neglected to fully optimize its Tegra 2 core for this skinned OS. It's not as if sleeker, more responsive and critically praised slates aren't within reach.

ENGADGET: Acer Iconia Tab A200 review

Dusting off the once-proud Taurus nameplate and putting it on the slow-selling Five Hundred doesn't make things clearer.

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Use this season of rebirth and renewal (think: buds on the trees, baby bunnies) to give your skills a good dusting off.

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