The countries are negotiating a security agreement that would define the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, and the notion of a general time frame recently was made part of the negotiations.

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Now that the dust has settled on Nikon's new D700 DSLR -- but hopefully not on that anti-dust 12.1 megapixel full-frame sensor -- we thought we'd toss together a few general impressions of the new mid-range pro camera.

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Quadrant benchmarks for general computing topped 5, 000 for both, and it was only graphically that the Snapdragon suffered, producing frame rates roughly half those of the quad-core S III.

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