Someone had told him the glasses were the culprit, but those batteries were dead too.

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He never knew how much he contributed to science, says Dr Corkin, but if someone had told him it would have given him a warm, fuzzy feeling for a few seconds, at least.

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Then, says Nickerson, Davison Design asked him for more money to chase another company, which someone at Davison told him they had targeted 76 times with zero results.

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But Tal Silberstein, a campaign official for Labor Party leader Ehud Barak, said someone in Greenberg's office had told him the Israeli campaign was the "main focus" of the robbery.

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But when she accompanied Mulyono to the clinic to offer to pay the balance of his debt, they were told the baby had been sold to someone who could take care of him.

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Mr Couzens said that locals told him that "it was nice to know that they had someone to call a hero".

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