How many people can honestly say that they have never pruned their e-mails to put off tackling more demanding tasks?

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

Liverpool will play in Group E along with French side Lyon, who have never been past the quarterfinals, Fiorentina of Italy and Debrecen of Hungary.

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Mr Draper has apologised to those mentioned in the e-mails and admitted "we should never really have considered the idea and I am sorry we did".

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The Linux subculture is a team of thousands of volunteer programmers across the world, most of whom have never met each other and communicate only by e-mail.

ECONOMIST: Software

You might say that Walmart would never, ever start hawking its own e-readers, but crazier things have happened -- Best Buy has an entire brand devoted to in-house goods, and Amazon itself has expanded from an online storefront for laundry detergent and bestselling novels to a bona fide hardware mainstay.

ENGADGET: Walmart to stop selling Amazon's Kindle line of readers and tablets

For example, legal cases that first may never have received such high attention quickly pick up awareness when social media, e-petitions and the wider web get involved.

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"New Mexico scientists have great ideas, but they have have never been good at finding customers beyond the federal government, " allows Michael E.

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