Some of the more far-out observations came from folks who are looking at new ways technology might change our view of the human body.

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Since we took it, James has used the picture to learn how to say his own name and looking back at the picture, far from fearing a trip to the seaside, he can't wait to go again.

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Story is far from over, but at the 10-year point its looking tough for the early investors.

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However, that awfully familiar-sounding name suggests that Samsung and Verizon are directly exploiting that Odyssey codename which many associated with the ATIV S. If so, we're looking at a device that's not at all far off from a GSM equivalent, keeping the Snapdragon S4, LTE and both 8- as well as 2-megapixel cameras.

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Thus far, we've really on a workforce of about 23, 000 here in -- at the university in Iowa City, we're looking at layoffs of about 130 from our hospitals and none so far from the university itself.

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But from the saddle and far into the heart of the Dixie Dude's 750 acres, I'm looking at a landscape crafted by Wayne and Eastwood: dried creeks, prickly pears, untamed, unpeopled hillsides of brush inflamed with a red-orange covering of the flower known as Indian paintbrush.

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In a paper published this month in the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Buchholz, Spalding and their colleagues showed that after examining 44 teeth from 41 people they could determine ages within about two years--far better than more common methods like looking at patterns of wear and the changes that proteins in the teeth undergo as people age.

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They have scoured the company's processing plant as well as the farms that grow the spinach, looking at everything from irrigation water to the proximity of livestock, with no sure connections made so far.

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