By the Qing dynasty (1644 to1912), many Huizhou men had consolidated their capital to open a string of pawnshops in major cities such as Beijing, and they funnelled their profits home to fund the construction of lavish residences for their wives and children.

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Silicon Valley pundits see this as a test case that may open floodgates for a long string of follow-up indictments.

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Early research involved a colleague lying in a deckchair in the night-time open air with a piece of string to measure the meteors, while he observed electromagnetic signals on a cathode-ray tube in a nearby hut.

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Each day, they'd open the tubes with the tug of a string, letting the containers tumble into a concrete gully.

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The revelation that Mr. Merah was already on the radar of French intelligence before his string of attacks leaves the president open to potential criticism.

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Since 2001 Railroad Earth has been playing bluegrass plus snatches of rock, folk, and jazz with the same open armed, occasionally long-winded approach that's helped jam bands like Phish and the String Cheese Incident earn throngs of rabid fans.

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