And Welsh duo Joanna Weale and Anwen Butten also crashed out, suffering a 20-11 defeat to New Zealand's Sharon Sims and Joanna Edwards.

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Now, that market in the sperm donor world accounts for less than 14 percent, according to projections by Charles Sims, the organization's co-founder and medical director.

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This month a test version of its Sims 2 is available with beverages at Atlanta-area McDonald's.

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Finally, Bloomberg says (and our own sources have corroborated) that Apple's working on a so-called "Universal SIM" technology that would eliminate physical SIMs altogether and make using the iPhone on different networks a simple matter of provisioning, not unlike American CDMA networks today.

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Australian-based Sims Metal Management (SMS, 16) is the world's largest publically traded scrap metal recycler and electronics recycler.

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The six groups with reduced funding are Southampton's Turner Sims Concert Hall, John Hansard Gallery and Nuffield Theatre, The Anvil in Basingstoke, Southampton-based Art Asia and the Aspex Visual Arts Trust, based in Portsmouth.

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Chef Charlie Sims cooked fried chicken, lasagna and the region's traditional New Year's dishes of black-eyed peas and cabbage.

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