And many of them are doing all of this while trying to hold down full-time jobs.

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She has very long hair, you see, which needs to dry naturally, and since this process takes at least four hours a day, there's basically no way she can hold down a full-time job.

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Shevchenko, AC Milan's second-most prolific goalscorer of all-time, with 127 goals from 208 games, was unable to hold down a regular spot at Chelsea, scoring only nine goals in his 47 Premier League appearances, but maintains he enjoyed his time at the club.

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Spinning at 10, 000 rpm with a brisk 5.7-millisecond seek time, the lightning-fast Cheetah needs a pair of 6-inch bolts to hold it down.

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"It's a little worrying doing so well at the World Championships because it's too long a chunk of time to hold your peak form, but it's not enough time to come down and re-train, " he explained.

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But on an Internet vastly bigger and more diverse than when the Time Warner deal went down in early 2000, what does the future hold for the once-dominant online hangout?

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