During our first Christmas we strung blinking lights around our win-dows, and on Christmas Eve, Mr. and Mrs.

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New York provided the offensive support when it strung together seven straight hits for the first time since Aug. 1, 2001, at Houston.

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The first technology--say, a stick bent and strung to make a bow--came from a need to improve an existing process of food gathering.

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Thus it was a remarkable spectacle when, on Monday July 5th, Indonesians across the length and breadth of this huge archipelago of 17, 000 islands, strung between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, queued calmly to cast their votes in the country's first direct election for president (until now, presidents had been chosen by a national assembly).

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