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  • According to Piers Bizony, the rival schemes sucked resources from each other: "There was a great deal of confusion in the Soviet space effort in the late 1960s and as a result they didn't have the technology to send a man to the Moon, " he says.

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  • They studied the data on the top 1, 000 stocks according to market value from 1968 to 2008, sorting the stocks each month into five portolios from least risky to riskiest.

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  • Esquire isn't ready with its tablet plans for April 3, but it plans later next month to sell an iPad version of its April issue that is expected to include music videos from five singer-songwriters tapped to create original songs, each containing the phrase "somewhere in Mississippi, " according to a person familiar with the matter.

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  • According to someone familiar with the details of the meeting, the two men sat across a table from each other, Mr. Woods flanked by his agent and Mr. Finchem joined by another PGA Tour executive.

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