It may sound a little off the wall, but Haifa likes to embrace its weird side.

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Because change is what produces opportunity, the faster the future arrives--with all its weird new technology, disruptive economic models and shifting alliances--the more opportunity there will be.

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To put it simply: Can Hadoop survive its weird beginning?

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At least its traditionally weird.

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Hungry Bird, once billed as Clem Snide's swan song, is a sprawling bit of post-apocalyptic prog-rock, while The Meat of Life polishes its predecessor's weird edges to a smooth and appealing shine.

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Basketball has such a weird and conflicted relationship with its starriest franchise.

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This would have been weird, in that economic growth and its twin, employment, are the clear issues of choice in these years of torpid economic recovery.

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And taking its cue from the inside-out T-shirts, a weird amalgam of repurposed jackets by Jun Takahashi seems to be twisting itself off the mannequin it's something between sculpture and performance art.

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Unfortunately, while those parts of the world could have been limited to Greece and Iceland, and maybe California, with deft political action, instead we are now looking at the potential breakup of the euro and (it is weird to be writing this in the 107F heat of Arizona) the loss of its AAA credit rating by the biggest economy on earth.

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Which is weird, because I'm a huge Apple fan and I'd been coveting an iPhone since its debut.

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