With public and private external debts at record highs, many advanced economies are increasingly looking inward for public debt placements.

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Something that might make the next iPod even more useful would be the addition of a built-in microphone sound-in port for an external microphone to record sound.

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The improvement in ratings is underpinned by emerging-market governments' strong external balance-sheets (record levels of foreign-exchange reserves and falling external debt ratios).

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Connect a stereo microphone (3rd party sold separately) to the external microphone input and record audio with enhanced clarity.

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Otherwise, we're still looking at the same 1.3-inch OLED display, line-in recording including the ability to record in WMA stereo via an external mic, an FM tuner, and about 20 hours of music playback.

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Using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers were able to record the brain's activity in response to internal and external stimuli such as eating and drinking.

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For the first time in a Nikon HD-SLR, users have the ability to record stereo sound through the internal microphone or attach an optional external microphone, such as Nikon's ME-1, through the dedicated microphone terminal.

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Pairing the n9 with four Niveus Digital Cable Receivers, an external, dual CableCARD tuner device, allows cable subscribers to simultaneously view and record eight standard definition or HD programs.

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But the main external candidate is solar, and more work is required to improve the "paleo" solar forcing record and to understand how the climate system responds both globally and regionally to solar forcing.

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