By concentrating on the label, instead of whether a product is actually defective, lawyers can convince juries to award damages because of a few missing words.

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This is the reason we can often read sentences in which the words have all their vowels missing and make sense of them.

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In other words, you have no excuse for missing the deadline this time around.

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For now, there are no first-party apps for Facebook and Twitter, which remains true on Windows 7 as well. (Twitter, at least, says it will have an app in the coming months.) Other missing biggies include: Foursquare, Mint, PageOnce, TripIt, NPR, Draw Something, Words with Friends, Temple Run, Spotify, Springpad, Remember the Milk, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly Read it Later), Flipboard, Steam, Instagram, Nook and Rdio.

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In other words, scientists have been looking at the book of life and identifying all the nouns but missing the verbs.

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We've seen the huge burden of eight years of war on our troops -- tour after tour, year after year, missing out on moments that every parent treasures: a baby's first steps, the first words, the day the training wheel comes off the bike, birthdays, anniversaries.

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