Out of the total IM earnings, the handset-making unit claimed 27.23 trillion won in revenue in the October-December quarter.

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Im not the first to point out that the study design has some issues, and in any case proving there isnt a difference is hard (this only shows that they failed to find a difference between drugs and dieting).

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No body needs glow in the dark corn cob holders (if theyre not out there thats my idea) but im sure they are.

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Reached by IM, Thomas, a former colleague of mine and a stickler for facts, points out yet another example: he joined Red Herring when it was just three years old.

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They might point out that email-compatible systems like PGP provide a much better proof of identity than an IM handle.

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The company was closing out a banner year that saw profits more than double from 1994, on top of a 44% im-provement over 1993.

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