In terms of pure volume, the latest IDC Digital Universal Study reports that more than 1.8 zettabytes 10 to the power of 21 bytes of information will be created and stored in 2011 alone.

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Instead of layers of packing cardboard which comprise the mass of Mr Gehry's now classic armchair, Moscow-born Mr Boym has dispensed with volume and substituted pure structure, quoting Mr Gehry in the materials he uses the cheap wooden frame and the plastic straps that (conceptually) might have bound Mr Gehry's cardboard together on a shipping carton.

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First Trust owns the ISI ChIndia (FNI) ETF, a low volume fund, but the only pure-play blend of the two Asian EM powerhouses.

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