Wave it near a reader, whether on a gas pump or in the fast-food line, and if you have enough credit on the card it's linked to the payment takes only seconds.

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Those who blamed Big Oil for price-gouging at the pump should now look at what Big Food is responsible for doing on the supermarket shelf.

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They were also required to carry all their equipment for the duration of the ultra-marathon -- from food and sleeping gear to an anti-venom pump and glow sticks -- as they battled with weariness and dehydration whilst snaking their way past rolling dunes, steep-sided uplands, dried-up lakes and abandoned settlements in the hostile heat.

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In addition to receiving the hot food, the victims could sign up for volunteers to pump out their basements.

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