Perhaps a dozen Jews are playing major-league baseball at present, the best among them being Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers' star left fielder.

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In the case of CalPERS, at least, such present problems -- and perhaps the future prospect of security-related sanctions being taken against select foreign firms -- is evidently beginning to translate into investors declining to subscribe to such offerings.

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Eventually, says Mr Burt, the ability of dye-based cells to produce useful quantities of power even in dim and diffuse light could see them used outside, perhaps on rooftops in cloudier parts of the world a market at present dominated by traditional, silicon-based cells, even though they are not well-suited to the purpose.

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Its submission concentrates on those consumers - perhaps as many as three million - who cannot get even a 2G signal at present.

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When people are better off and unemployment is low (it is 4.5% at present), there is simply less incentive to rob others, and perhaps less incentive even to hurt them.

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With that in mind, perhaps our policies will be more compassionate, more all-embracing, more realistic, and more science based than at present.

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