The snarky character banter is here, along with the buddy-cop dynamic between Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle, the extended sequence set in a random small town dive bar, the almost subtle politics, and of course the self-depreciating macho sensibilities.

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Catherine Farrell, of the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years, said the government needed a "joined-up strategy" for childcare rather than the current "random set of proposals".

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Wal-Mart, after all, does not set up shop at random.

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MessageLabs, the email-filtering company that Symantec acquired in 2008, posted a set of word maps today measuring the frequency of terms in spam emails from a random one-week sampling of junk mail pulled from the most prolific spam-spewing botnets.

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