New gadget lands at the iFixit labs, and the good folk there give it a teardown.

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The good folk of Harvard, Ashfield and other long-suffering New England towns (again, beautifully evoked here in their half-settled state) attributed these rigours to drink or dementia, and often sent out vigilantes to attack the worshippers.

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What is good news for ageing folk is bad news for those who support them.

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Those aren't exactly Ritz-Carlton levels of customer joy, but they're good enough for hotels that cater to budget-minded folk.

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British folk band Mumford and Sons say their six Grammy award nominations are "good for business".

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You know, I grew up in North Carolina, mostly, and there was a lot of gospel music, there was country music and there was a good deal of blues and I sort of got into music at the time of folk music, which, you know, sort of people refer to as the Great Folk Scare of the early '60s.

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Plenty of local business-folk yearn for a new Karajan, who they reckon would bring back the good old days when the town was awash with visitors brandishing gold credit cards.

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And the use of the phrase "to have legs" to describe a good idea, famously used in business meetings, was first recorded in 1930 in a publication entitled "Texas Folk-Lore".

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