Coincidentally or not, Seal is doing the talk-show circuit lately and often talking about his personal life only, while Klum remains mum about the divorce.

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It then moved on to mainframe circuit-boards and terminals and eventually to personal computers.

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Adams, the county circuit clerk, didn't want to discuss her personal thoughts on gay rights or same-sex marriage.

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In its recent Cotterman decision, the Ninth Circuit conceded that the Supreme Court had never applied the Montoya de Hernandez exception to personal property, but the judges decided anyway to extend the exception to border searches of a particular kind of property: laptop computers.

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The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.

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