If this is how Walter pictures it, it's hard to understand how it could drive him over the edge (though it might explain why it takes him three days to finish it).

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And it might help explain why Lloyds Banking Group favoured Co-op over the NBNK new banking investment vehicle - the other shortlisted contender - as the latter wouldn't have reached the levels sought by Vickers' recommendations.

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Wired News is claiming in an article that Microsoft's internal management have been wringing their hands anxiously at the droves of iPod users who work there their source estimates somewhere in the range of 64% of all MSFT employees own one (which might explain why it's been selling so well lately).

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It also could explain why check in offers aimed at women might not be working.

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If they were lucky, Grotzinger now thought, Gale could have the best of both worlds: a crater that might once have been habitable and a mountain that could explain why it no longer is.

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