Mr. GINSBERG: Angel-headed hipsters, burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.

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Romania, once a breadbasket, could with its 23m people be a powerhouse of south-eastern Europe, just as Poland with nearly 40m has emerged incontestably as the new dynamo of east-central Europe between Germany and Belarus-Russia.

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"We don't have to pay anything we're not legally liable for, " says Bernick, 53, a 5-foot-6 dynamo who has defended tobacco companies and breast-implant manufacturers with equal fervor.

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Mancini had bemoaned his team's busy schedule in recent weeks, blaming tiredness for a string of below-par performances, including the 2-0 defeat by Dynamo Kiev in their Europa League last-16 first leg tie on Thursday.

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Because some users turn the crank-handle faster and harder than others, a nifty three-stage gearbox and a dynamo based on powerful neodymium-iron-boron magnets is used to ensure that efficiency is largely independent of the torque applied.

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