Regardless of the title's origin, the part of the phone that's most intriguing is the fact that it's one of the first to bear Mozilla's mobile platform.

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And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.

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Biltmore (a name derived in part from Bildt, the Vanderbilts' Dutch town of origin) has been receiving guests since its completion, and paying ones since 1930.

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In a statement given to the Ars Technica website, EA said it was investigating hypothetical attacks such as the one found by Mr Ferrante and Mr Auriemma as part of the work it did to improve security on Origin.

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Every ORIGIN PC features a 1 to 3 year free part replacement warranty combined with the best in class integration, quality testing and support.

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Companies that have their origin in social enterprise find that meeting commitments are part of their founding corporate DNA. New Jersey-based TerraCycle, for example, builds its products from non-recyclable waste that would otherwise be dumped in landfills.

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And Israeli authorities announced last Tuesday that they'd detained 240 illegal migrants -- all of them Sudanese -- as part of the controversial plan, with another 300 people volunteering to return to their country of origin.

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