Even before the recession GDP was barely crawling along, with growth averaging a miserly 0.7% a year over the past decade (see chart).

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The spiders even interact with real things on the desk, crawling over books and disappearing under pieces of paper.

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But Les kept crawling, kept pulling himself along, closer to that bunker, even as the bullets hit the ground all around him.

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This can be a problem even in the best universities: students feel short-changed by professors fixated on crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass.

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