In some places, "the wolf is coming back, nature is taking over, so to speak, and it's really literally only old people" left, says Harald Wilkoszewski, a political scientist with Population Europe, a collaborative network of European demographic research centers.
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"It's really back to the old Sabbath style and sound, " he said.
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It's not really clear why the old CableCARD hasn't taken off as expected -- consumers blame their cable providers, who blame the card manufacturers, who blame device makers -- but nonetheless, the technology is far from dead, and now it looks like those long-awaited multi-stream CARDS could be available before the end of the year.
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"It's really a time-warpy, old fashioned, water taffy kind of place, " says Holly Hughes, co-author of 500 Extraordinary Islandsand a former executive editor of Fodor's Travel Guides.
"For all the talk coming out of Cisco about adding Old World technology to their Internet products, it's really up to companies like Lucent and Nortel, who actually have experience in the old telecom world, to make it happen, " says Hilary Mine of Probe Research.
It's most similar to the old GameCube controller, really, but much wider and with more buttons.
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"I just think it's appalling really that they can discharge an 85-year-old lady with dementia into a taxi... anything could have happened to her, " she said.
It's an old, familiar ploy, one that New England really hasn't been able to use with a straight face in a full decade, when a long-shot Patriots outfit with a random backup QB met Kurt Warner and the unstoppable Rams.
Ms. MAYNARD: It's kind of an interesting time because we're seeing some really old brands like Pontiac, Mercury.
"It's people who are not computer users -- either really young or really old and for whom using technology just isn't a part of their daily lives, " Smith said.
So I think the answer to the question, and it's sort of something I'd like to emphasize, is that the old rules really still are good.
You likely have years' worth of romantic failure riddled throughout your Facebook profile -- old pictures, wall posts, comments, messages -- and it's not really a good look.
"It's amazing really and caps a fantastic season for both myself and the club, " the 22-year-old Dawson was quoted on Tottenham's website.
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