Adapting a novel like "On the Road, " which has attracted legions of fans over the last half-century and inspired many to hit the open road, is no easy task.

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The task that awaited him at the 1970 US Open was a greater one - no British player had won the championship for half a century.

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While most of the Republican incumbents running Tuesday were expected to win re-election, a wave of retirements left the GOP with the task of defending nine open seats, where most of their losses were expected.

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That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.

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