Once the Yankees look like the Yankees again, they will take their shot, with only one nagging question lingering in the background waiting to be answered: When they do return, will those aging stars have enough left to make a difference?

WSJ: New York Yankees: Searching for Life Amid the Fossils

But headcounts in the street are not the only thing to weigh against lingering Syrian control.

ECONOMIST: Lebanon and its media

And partly thanks to the Adreno 320 graphics core, the MDP even scored an astonishing 132fps in our GLBenchmark test, while the quad core Galaxy S III with Mali-400 graphics came second with 99fps, with the remaining devices lingering around 60fps only.

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This reflects not only Mr Saleh's lingering personal popularity, and the weight of a patronage system that extends beyond the large bureaucracy and army to tribal leaders and favoured businessmen, but also the widespread fear that the country is simply too fragile to cope with a transfer of power.

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And there is also a lingering prejudice against electronic-only publishing.

ECONOMIST: Scientific publishing

Not only did I feel angry about losing money, the experience created a lingering negative attitude about stocks in general.

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Only the VAX succeeded--and then DEC stuck with it too long, lingering in minicomputers after the market had turned to workstations.

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