It's puzzling, just to get by everyday and do what you do.

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From a Scottish perspective, it's puzzling why distribution of government spending within England is not more of an issue, and doesn't feed through into a stronger lobby.

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Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.

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"It's been puzzling why previous estimates for the planet's interior have been so dry, " co-author Erik Hauri of the Carnegie Institution of Washington said in a statement.

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So, it's not that puzzling that a paranoid ideology has grown up in places like Afghanistan.

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It follows last week's "puzzling" behaviour by the bird, who showed all the tell-tale signs of egg laying before completely changing her behaviour.

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All of which makes it puzzling that Mr Prodi's government should have chosen to give General Pollari a public endorsement.

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The term has been around in computer science for decades, says Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, so it is puzzling that Mr Zuckerberg should get any special credit for using it.

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Now, with the puzzling results from Iressa, it's becoming clear that these are not miracle drugs.

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An aide from Lott's office told CNN that Hastert's comments were puzzling because the gun control issue it not slated to come up in the House of Representatives anytime soon.

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But it's the Kings, Coyotes and Rangers that are the most puzzling.

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So it's kind of--the whole thing is kind of puzzling.

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At the Queens Museum, where the significance of water is one of the themes, several competent, if mundane, marine paintings compete with Winslow Homer's superb 1888 etching, "Perils of the Sea, " whose presence here is puzzling, since it was inspired by the artist's stay at an English fishing village.

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Android is particularly puzzling, however: Google licenses it for free and it's turned up on some rather interesting devices, but none of those devices have helped build out an ecosystem.

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But it's a honey of a primer, by turns beautiful, eye-opening, mysterious and puzzling.

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