Russian mortality has been decreasing for almost a full decade now, and it boggles the mind that noting this is somehow controversial or in bad taste.

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Police said they stormed the house early on Sunday morning after noting Murphy's "deteriorating state of mind".

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Mr. Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe by noting, for instance, that the space between a star like the sun and its nearest neighbor is 30 million times the diameter of the sun itself and that there are 10 billion stars in the universe for every human being who has ever walked the Earth.

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"The main damage in the investor's mind is the increasing uncertainty, " he said, noting that it isn't known how strongly Andalusia's decree will be enforced and what other measures regional governments could come up with that could affect the market.

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Once the most-hyped secret invention since the A-bomb, code-named It and Ginger, the Segway sprang from the almost impossibly fertile mind of medical technology innovator Dean Kamen (who, it's worth noting, didn't do the hyping himself).

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"They've clearly changed their mind, " David Wessel, economics editor at The Wall Street Journal, told Steve Inskeep, noting the repeated hints from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Vice Chairman Don Kohn that a rate cut is imminent.

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