The home support at Schladming had hoped defending world champion Anna Fenninger would shine on the big stage, but the 23-year-old failed to make one gate high up the course.

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Women, of course, make up 49% of all e-commerce consumers but make more online purchases at 61%.

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His intent to make good on that slip-up was clear in Brazil as he blew away the previous course best by four strokes.

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Of course, personal ties do not necessarily make Mr Kerry a fully-paid-up New Democrat like Bill Clinton.

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Physically, the XV6900 is just ever-so-slightly larger than its GSM cousin -- not enough for the average person to ever notice in the course of regular use -- and the addition of 3G data is more than enough to make up for that slight difference as far as we're concerned.

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