Troops are sitting outside their tents chatting, some are indulging in a cigar.

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So before games in each road city, Rivera can be found deep in some back room, chatting it up with staffers from each club.

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She's been surfing, chatting and blogging for some years, so when she and her husband Jason had daughter Amie in 2004, it seemed natural to her to seek work online.

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Some of their clients enjoyed the atmosphere at the table and stayed for hours chatting.

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Chatting with farmers in Pingchang county in neighboring Sichuan province, we totaled some 100 demands in fees, levies and quotas that each family had to satisfy.

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If that doesn't wet your gadget whistle, Darren Murph recently spent some time going inside Innovation Lab with its co-founder, Mads Thimmer, chatting about a driving passion for what's next.

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