The emotional force of a novel that has the power to grip a reader through many readings spread across multiple decades just cannot be delivered by a 112-minute movie.

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But the gate at Srirampur - on Assam's border with the neighbouring state of West Bengal - does not have a microchip reader so many of the elephants could be taken out undetected.

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Twitter is used by many as a teaser, to drive the reader (via link) to a longer message, blog, article or website.

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By now, a reader might suspect I have many relatives in Israel.

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So, for many users of Google Reader, this comes as a shock.

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There are so many risk factors listed in a prospectus that an average reader not accustomed to such documents would run for the hills and hide his wallet.

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It's worth noting that Amazon's PDF reader lacks a zoom function which makes many PDFs entirely unreadable on the device.

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The death of Google Reader reveals a problem of the modern Internet that many of us likely have in the back of our heads but are afraid to let surface: We are all participants in a user driven Internet, but we are still just the users, nothing more.

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Reader, like many other Google services, will also get a new look in the next few days.

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So, for many users of Google Reader, people that love the product, this comes as a shock.

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