Earlier this month, state workers performed mass physical exercise and were encouraged to climb an 8km (five mile) concrete staircase built into a hillside outside Ashgabat.

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The craze in Finland at the time was for physics games, in which the action in a game replicates the force and mass of the physical world instead of cartoonish explosions and speeds.

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The researchers found that sitting was associated with a higher death risk after controlling for factors including age, gender, smoking status, physical activity, education, body mass index, as well as living in an urban or city environment.

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Already, 3D printing has been refined to the point where digital models can be duplicated into physical prototypes or production parts that closely resemble mass-produced products in looks and function.

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But if you want to sell back Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim to help you pay for half the cost of a physical copy of the game on launch day, I suppose you have that right.

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Worries about demand for physical gold from China and India are getting some of the blame for the mass exodus of longs out of the gold and silver markets.

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An ambitious revival that fuses the famous Bob Fosse choreography with the daring physical world of circus is in previews at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.

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