That same fight-or-flight response that prevented us from being eaten by tigers also warns us when our mental selves are in danger.
Facebook continues to do what it can to keep us from ever being alone.
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About a month went by before I secretly hoped Scary Gary would return home and rescue us from being so dull.
And people are concerned about whether the standards, the non-tariff barriers with respect to autos is something that is preventing us from being able to compete with very good products.
Even with the ability to convert sunlight into electricity with high efficiency using photovoltaic solar cells, many challenges prevent us from being able to power all our energy needs with solar panels.
As the Fiscal Cliff debate diffuses into so many Three-Card Monte games during 2013, perhaps the clarity of the Government Affordability Index can prevent us from being tricked, over and over and over again.
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What we've seen in these last weeks is that we're also up against forces that are not the fault of any one campaign, but feed the habits that prevent us from being who we want to be as a nation.
Reports emerged of a passage from a newspaper article that featured word for word, and then of a paragraph from the US embassy website being used without attribution.
They range from being well over double the US poverty line up to being a solid middle class income in many parts of the country.
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The company is trying to re-build its business from being primarily a US-based DVD rental service to a global film and TV streaming operation.
The average reader would think that the UK decision was at odds with that in the US. Far from that being so, it was in accordance with it.
One of the great things about the digital age is that it's freed many people up, most of us up, from being in the position of anybody deciding for you how and when you can work.
For most of us, being barred from filing taxes hardly sounds like punishment!
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He joined us from the International AIDS Conference being held in Mexico City.
Janice Sharp, the mother of computer hacker Gary McKinnon who was spared from being extradited to the US, is backing his Mr McIntyre's fight.
Correspondents say he is unwilling to grant US soldiers immunity from prosecution and is unhappy that Afghans are still being held in US-run military prisons on Afghan soil.
If it is upheld the ITC has the power to stop infringing Samsung products from being imported into the US. This is part of a counter-suit that Apple filed with the ITC after Samsung issued one vs.
The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it's fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they don't like the spying, especially since the full extent of such spying is deliberately hidden from us and there are few alternatives being marketed by companies that don't spy.
Is fear of being ridiculed stopping us from broadcasting our opinions across the Web?
It essentially looks a lot like Android, but seemed pretty janky to us and a long way from being ready for release to consumers.
The intelligence collected by a 100-strong contingent of US personnel from across the border is being shared with French troops in Mali, who are assisting thousands of troops from African states.
Samsung has chosen to launch its new Galaxy S smartphone on March 14 in New York, after apparently being bombarded with requests from US mobile carriers to launch it on American soil.
"What they've committed themselves to here is to giving up more national control over their budgets, and us standing apart from that is not being isolated from them, it is a very sensible thing to stand apart from that, " he said.
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We might want to congratulate ourselves that this experiment is being carried out far away from us.
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"But their actions once in difficulty, by putting up their tent and calling us, undoubtedly prevented the outcome from being far more serious, " he added.
The software is still being tweaked from what TeleNav tells us, so we're going to assume that won't be an issue once it's on the market.
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That potent and instinctive emotion whose reason for being is to protect us from pain (including the emotional variety) and urge us away from anything it perceives might threaten our sense of self, injure our pride, or rattle our world.
The interview came as the US and Jordan announced that 200 intelligence, logistics and operations specialists from the US Army's 1st Armored Division were being sent to Jordan to help contain violence along the border.
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An Iranian news agency has apologised after being fooled by a spoof story from a US satirical website.
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