Rounded corners give them a slimmer form factor for reduced desktop space, while LED lights at the bottom of the drives indicate their operation status.

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She added that since the operation the twins' health status had been reversed.

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Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore called his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, Saturday morning to thank him for France's military intervention and to discuss the status of the operation, she said.

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But when media give scant and selective coverage to the topic, they are abetting the status quo, which depends on the continued inscrutibility of the operation of this costly canard.

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It will require a departure from the walled-garden mentality in which the operation of a static Web site or a network of disparate branded blogs has been the status quo.

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By breaking the fragile status quo prevailing since the spring of 2012, it triggered the current French-led military operation in an attempt to avoid a complete collapse in Bamako.

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Even the small and mid-sized manufacturing operation is now part of a global network of loosely coupled entities that must collaborate and deliver real-time status information to customers, supply chain partners, organization leaders, and employees.

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