Lumbering across the Gulf of Mexico at nine miles an hour, Hurricane Rita is moving faster than the hundreds of thousands trying to get out of her way on jammed Texas highways.

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There may be anecdotal cases of families insisting on heroic measures to keep an elderly patient alive. (There may be counter anecdotes of wanting to get Grandma out of the way before her money is all spent).

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Maxfield kept heading toward the finish only to be stopped by a security official trying to get her out of harm's way.

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What if it turns out she bullied an honest law-enforcement officer out of his job, to get her way in a domestic dispute that had nothing to do with him?

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That way, he can get her out of politics.

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So, pieces of the ideal, which has existed for almost a decade, are beginning to fall into place: multiple devices that serve different functions all pointing at the user and maintaining state, network communications and cloud-based services that coordinate them all, and control points and apps that allow the user to get the most out of his or her device pantheon in the most convenient way.

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