Glinka had the virtue of being an ideologically neutral choice, but the lack of any words to his song meant it did not exactly lend itself to a morale-boosting singalong - hence the footballers' frustration.

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The findings could have promising implications for diseases that involve a neurogenesis deficit -- in other words, a lack of new brain cells being born -- which happens in conditions such as depression, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the authors said.

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Lack of progress on capital markets, in other words, is part of the price of governments' tacit support for forbearance towards doubtful borrowers.

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But Web designers have found that pages with duplicate content, few words or pictures, and a lack of links to other quality sites are the most likely to be pulled in.

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The lack of decent upgrades combined with the crass revamp that introduced ad words into the game have effectively killed it.

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In other words, Harvard profs are getting schooled in the lack of privacy when it comes to work email accounts.

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It might, if one heeds the words of Ban Ki-moon, be more suitably designated Global Lack of Nutrition Day.

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And it also points to the woeful lack of understanding on the part of most Americans -- those who would dismiss Guillen's words and Cuban exiles' reaction to them as irrelevant -- about the Cuban-American experience, versus the understanding that Americans have of the Jewish experience.

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