There was a note of optimism for in the form of 21-year-old Chris Woakes, who took 6-45 in his second one-day international.

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Kicking things off the 17-inch DIY gaming laptop, which takes a note from the DIY-styled Neutrino, but gets a much bigger form factor.

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Reading mode and Smart Remote are clearly the Note 8.0's two biggest software features, but to make the tab just a bit more alluring, Samsung's pre-loading two other applications suited to the Note 8.0's form and function.

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However, with banks charging a higher rate per note, lenders stand to make more from each note and, subsequently, with those extra funds, offer less traditional, more progressive incentives for higher rates in the form of products and services not available to a low-interest note.

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Even so, health-care advocates note that 16% of all adolescents, ages 12 to 21, are without any form of public or private insurance coverage.

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All the conversation, content and context from a meeting or brainstorming session, even scribbles on a notepad or Post-it note, could be captured, preserving not just the idea, but the authentic, original form of the idea.

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Microsoft is quick to note that the user experience is identical between the One and Two -- even though they have distinctly different form factors, all of the specs related to software performance are the same across both models, so it's really just a question of whether you want one-handed operation with the One or two-handed operation with the Two coupled with a larger, higher-resolution display.

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