Mike's may have slightly less variability on decadal scales than the others (especially cf Esper et al), but he is using a lot more data than the others.

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However, he added, the paper by Prof Palmer et al turned out to be " an extremely useful window into the past".

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"The Daulton et al claim that we have misidentified diamonds is false and misleading, " he said.

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He has just started on a story about how he only chose Cambridge in order to be in the Footlights, but was refused entry because his humour didn't chime with the tradition set by John Cleese et al ("there were lots of jokes about cricket matches, " he says), when he picks up a glass of cola and takes a drink.

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It remains to be seen how long Heras will keep up with Armstrong et al but expect crowds to be left in awe by his climbing ability - he could yet be crowned king of the mountains - and will surely bring a stage victory on one of the tougher stages this time around.

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Venter et. al had already pulled off a similar trick a few years ago, when he popped a genome from one bacteria into another.

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Like all writers (it's almost safe to say) he was a big drinker. (See Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Cheever, Mailer, et al.) I once startled Gore by saying I'd just read that each drink kills more than 10, 000 brain cells.

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In an energetic follow-up to Politico on his Monday morning show, Joe Scarborough said he was the first high-profile media conservative to announce that Romney is blowing a winnable election and that Limbaugh et al. followed him in defining Romney's damning new persona: a CEO who says American needs a CEO, but who is publicly failing at being CEO of his own billion-dollar campaign.

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