Early next year Nokia will begin selling the new N95, a luxe phone with a silvery front, beige back and two-way sliding top.

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The main reason for that is the glove-friendly sliding record button on top that lets you quickly feel whether you're recording, even when camera is stuck to the side of your head.

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The charging pad itself has a glossy plastic base that matches the phone, but there's a nice rubbery gray top that keeps the handset from sliding around too much while it's juicing up.

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The next afternoon, I was sliding head-first down a dune, yelling at the top of my lungs.

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But in 2011, the NFL introduced a rookie wage cap that reduced the pay for top-10 picks by tying salaries to a sliding scale.

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Hamilton, sliding the McLaren aggressively around Singapore's wall-lined corners, remained top of the list for the majority of first practice, progressively lowering his times.

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David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in the country, told Congress this week he could see troop numbers sliding by 30, 000 -- which would reduce the number of troops to pre-surge levels -- by July 2008.

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