Anyone who watches TV has seen the familiar images from the warfront: military men and women in desert camouflage uniforms riding in Humvees, patrolling dusty streets, firing their weapons.

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It is not proof that Sharon is conscious of the familiar sounds and images, and recognizing them as a fully healthy person would, he said.

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Mr. Verhoeven also cited the differences between icons, such as the messaging application in the Samsung "Fascinate" phone, which doesn't use the familiar rounded-square images.

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They observed a different response in the brain in conjunction with the familiar place than for the other images.

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JirboMatch, which jazzes up the familiar game of "Memory" with images of cartoon farm animals, is the most popular of more than 730 iPhone applications listed on Apple's Web site.

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Even after all these years, it all looks so familiar to anyone who remembers those horrific images of people clinging to rooftops and huddled on bridges, waiting desperately for help to arrive.

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The sequence of events and images from Friday are all too familiar.

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One person familiar with the photos noted that most of the Earth observation images were of Israel.

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