No, that's not nearly as fast as a keyboard--it took less than 40 seconds to type the passage in--but it was more than twice as fast as smART writer.

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No one now knows how easy it would be to turbo-charge an existing human pathogen, or take one that infects another type of animal and assist its passage over the species barrier.

ECONOMIST: Synthetic biology

"I was just really determined today, and I'm happy I was able to win with that type of scoreline, " the Russian said after her passage to the semifinals where she will play former No.1 Ana Ivanovic of Serbia.

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Freddie becomes a photographer in a department store, making out with a model in his darkroom, where he brews a cocktail in a chemical beaker, and then, in one extraordinary passage, taking offense at a customer a robust and portly type, who wants his picture taken and laying into him, as though ignited by envy at such unattainable well-being.

NEWYORKER: Sail Away

Trade Exchange Network, parent of gambling Web sites tradesports.com and intrade.com, told the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that it is setting up an "exempt board of trade" (EBOT), a type of lightly regulated financial market that has been allowed since the passage of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act five years ago.

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