• Additionally, a single four-by-four production module found in growing rooms can double the electricity use of the average American home (triple that of an average Californian home).

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  • In the final village we stopped in before starting our ascent, an elderly lady mistook our small convoy of white four-by-four vehicles for those of a development agency.

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  • Other goodies here include a three megapixel camera (a nice bump over the two megapixel shooters found on the IM-R100 and IM U-MU110), PictBridge support for PC-less printing, MP3 playback enhanced by four-channel stereo speakers and an FM transmitter, plus that popular Korean add-on, the electronic dictionary.

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  • Roughly two in five of their decisions are unanimous, but one in four are decided by five-four splits.

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  • It was a "once-in-a-four-year event watched by millions of people around the world", she said.

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  • They're touting twelve SATA connections for up to 9TB of storage, 20 USB 2.0 channels, four gig Ethernet ports, four or eight monitors powered by up to four PCI-E cards, and Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture designed for optimized performance (or so they tell us).

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  • With more than a hundred accredited diplomats, Iran's embassy in Managua - a massive compound surrounded by four-meter-high concrete walls lined with razor wire - is one of the largest diplomatic compounds in the world.

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  • Across Europe, the dependency ratio of older people (aged 65 and over) to those of working age (15-64) will double from one-to-four to one-to-two by 2050.

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  • On Sunday, trailing by three scores midway through the second quarter, San Francisco rallied for two quick touchdowns -- one on a LaMichael James 11-yard run, the other on a four-yard reception by tight end Vernon Davis.

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  • Parry won his first full European Tour tournament for 14 years - he also clinched the joint-sanctioned WGC-NEC Invitational in 2002 - by denying fellow Australian Nick O'Hern over four play-off holes.

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  • The Yankees entered on a season-high five-game losing streak following a four-game Subway Series sweep by the Mets.

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  • Missourians chose President Bush over John Kerry by a six-point margin in 2004 and picked Bush over Al Gore by a four-point margin in 2000.

    CNN: McCain, Obama in tight race as debates loom

  • Casey, who started on pole, led from front with the result never looking in doubt as Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo -- who had led the series by four points - fruitlessly gave chase.

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  • The CSA collects regular payments from non-resident parents, but by October 2006 one in four applications for maintenance - received by the agency since 2003 - were still waiting to be cleared.

    BBC: Parents and staff suffered during the CSA reforms, MPs say

  • Rangel deprived his own low-income constituents of affordable housing by accepting four rent-stabilized apartments for his own use.

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  • "My legal two-story house was damaged by an illegal four-story house, " she says.

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  • Ahead of the report's publication, First Minister Alex Salmond announced that a target has been set to cut carbon emissions from electricity generation by more than four-fifths by 2030.

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  • Mr Mutharika, a church-going Catholic has four grown-up children by his Zimbabwean wife, Ethel, who died in May 2007.

    BBC: Bingu wa Mutharika (back) and Bakili Muluzi (front)

  • Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.

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  • The Ministry of Defence said the 2m-long (6.5ft) device was raised from the seabed by a four-man Royal Navy team using a specially designed mine-lifting air-bag.

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  • The Amsterdam summit in 1997 introduced Mr Blair to the niceties of EU treaty-making, and was followed soon afterwards by the ghastly four-night negotiation of the Nice treaty in 2000.

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  • However, that changed on Sunday as the 27-year-old cruised to a 6-1 7-6 6-4 victory over 23rd seed Soderling, the man who had caused a sensation by dumping four-time winner Rafael Nadal out of the tournament earlier in the week.

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  • But the 29-year-old saw his four-shot overnight lead cut by one as American Ben Curtis fired six birdies in a six-under-par round of 64 to move second.

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  • "Yesterday I was interviewed by the police concerning two complaints - one of which dates back four years, made by two people who are well-known to each other, and who until yesterday I regarded as friends, " he said in a statement.

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  • The traveler stumbles bleary-eyed into the crowded arrival hall, only to face another two- to four-hour journey either by bus or train (a taxi ride would bankrupt an Arab prince) into the city.

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  • The ten-seat board, dominated in the post-Enron age by eight independent directors, has appointed a four-member search committee--without inviting Andreas to join it.

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  • Kicking King failed to make a serious challenge as Ballistraw, the 33-1 outsider of four, snatched the win by three-quarters of a length from Knight Legend.

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  • Senna, one of the sport's most dynamic drivers, became transfixed with an improvised go-kart made for him as a four-year-old by his father using old parts of an old lawnmower.

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  • Koertzen correctly declined that one, for there was no inside edge onto the pad, but Ponting - despite clouting one delivery over mid-on for four - never really settled and might have been bowled by an off-break which fizzed directly over middle stump.

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  • British universities have an advantage for the time being, because their three-year courses look better value than the four-year courses offered by most competitors.

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