His other choices are Holding Back The Years, Fairground - "because of that huge wheel they have further down the river" - and Words For Girlfriends.

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Huge Himalayan vultures wheel eye-level with the road, while tiny tits inhabit a range of vegetation, from conifers and cedars to broadleaved oaks and rhododendrons.

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And in one of the most unusual stories to flash across our screens this week, a man built a huge floating hamster wheel and used it to walk 66 miles across the Irish Sea.

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If you really want to cut through huge blocks of text, you're still better off using the scroll wheel on your mouse.

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Most of the people who teach at BGI move on within a few years, so the wheel for most course sequences is reinvented all the time, which implies huge adjustment and faculty-training costs and little continuity in curriculum development.

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Sitting about a half-inch lower on its suspension, and shrouding outrageous 20-inch alloys and Pirelli P Zeros in the wheel wells, the XKR-S looks like what it is: a huge, privileged brat, an upper-class lad with a bad attitude and mouth like a vulcanized black bass.

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