This time, he said he liked German painter Gerhard Richter's wall-size print "Stripe" at Marian Goodman's booth.

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Perhaps the real problem is the colour Berlin's conservative-led government has chosen for the stripe.

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The professor and the policeman's beers are equally symbolic, Pirko says - Red Stripe with its Jamaican pedigree, and Blue Moon striving for craft beer credibility, though it's actually made by Coors.

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The 16-digit account number stored in your card's magnetic stripe zooms across a leased phone line to the merchant's bank, zips under the Pacific to Visa's data center outside Tokyo and rides the Visa network to the data center of your issuing bank in Delaware.

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Mathieu even resembles his namesake, with dyed-blond hair that echoes the vanilla stripe that runs down the animal's back.

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The publisher of the world's top business magazine leapt off a 55-foot cliff into water after his fourth Red Stripe.

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" Unlike the West, says Catherine Allen, founder of U.S.-based Smart Card Forum, the region "does not have the embedded infrastructure of magnetic-stripe cards to get rid of.

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The glossy stripe from the original white or grey One X has gone, and -- if it's possible -- the plastic feels slightly softer and classier.

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