While her speech and intellect remained unchanged after the accident, her ability to sing and to recognise once-familiar melodies disappeared.

ECONOMIST: The biology of music | The

Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations: That's the familiar story of so many once-great American fortunes.

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The 3-step correction has once again followed the familiar relationship between the internal waves.

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Even though they are tired of the same old faces, Ukrainians seem likely once again to have to choose between two familiar front-runners: the former and current prime ministers, Viktor Yanukovich and Yulia Tymoshenko (each has served as prime minister twice).

ECONOMIST: Ukraine's presidential election

But once again Arsenal were guilty of their familiar crime of over-elaboration and missing chances, leaving the door open for Spurs to rescue a point from a game that looked lost.

BBC: Arsenal 4-4 Tottenham

In other words, yet another familiar old-economy problem now looms for firms which once seemed to assume that their markets could never stop growing.

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