After a few fast turns caused by turbulence in the magnetosphere, one piece of plasma finds itself close to another piece that is dragging along a magnetic field with the opposite orientation.

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The decree transformed a farce into yet another example of Mr Berlusconi's contempt for the rule of law, of a piece with a new draft law to allow ministers to delay criminal trials against them.

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Since then, real malware has also appeared in the Android Market, including 50 or so apps infected with a piece of malware called DroidDream in March and another 25 using a variant called DroidDream Light in May.

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What does it matter, then, if the average Frenchman still according to yet another piece of social research has only one bath a week, compared with the average Briton's three?

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And unlike the formal process laid out for amending that founding document, the patent bill has been rushed as just another piece of legislation with the most cursory of review and negligible debate, in a manner that reeks of Pelosi-esque high-handedness.

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In that sense, instead of building its own payments service Facebook could also partner with another payments provider and build out the loyalty piece, perhaps as a new version of the Check-in Deals.

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Another piece, a gold brooch set with an ancient gold coin that pictures Philip II of Macedonia, has patterns made of diamonds, blue topazes, amethysts, peridots, and pink and red tourmalines.

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