Nothing says the holidays in America to him like a convenience- store sign wishing customers "Happy X-Mas" while offering them great deals on Bud Lite and antifreeze.

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The result is a compact source of X-rays that can be controlled with great precision.

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What about a great big bush of mauve-pink Daphne mezereum underplanted with a carpet of Crocus x luteus, in bright orange-yellow?

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The 7-inch, 1024 x 600 display also doesn't offer great viewing angles.

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"You can see it for yourself, " Weaver moaned to a reporter, staring Friday at all the vacant lots, overrun with weeds that are taller than he is, at all the abandoned shells of former homes, many of them still marked with the spray-painted "X" that became the grim symbol of a great American city nearly wiped off the map.

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The Bush Administration is to be commended for undertaking this review and the Congress encouraged to give great weight to that assessment's conclusions in its subsequent deliberations on the FS-X deal.

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Nokia also manages to pack in a solid 3 megapixel camera (minus auto-focus, unfortunately), whose photos apparently look great on the oversize 352 x 418 screen, which reviewer Rafe Blandford says is the best he has ever seen on a cellphone.

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As the accompanying mini-documentary shows, the team behind this project not only put great care into constructing the 20ft x 7ft custom track with the right bends, it also faithfully crafted the slot cars so as to mimic the Audi quattro's all wheel drive mechanic.

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