Conversely, on foreign French-speaking media and social media, estimates will, in the space of one mouse click, start filtering out from 6.30 p.m. onwards, when those in the know get initial voting trends, from the first 100 ballot papers counted from other polling stations that closed at 6 p.m.

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They offer ample space for perusing documents, the Apple mouse and keyboard.

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Mixing with a long motorised fader and real transport controls is certainly more fun than clicking at an icon with a mouse (or pushing the space bar, which starts and stops most software sequencers).

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Within hours, NASA will retrieve the science samples meticulously collected over the weeks and months by space station astronauts, as well as experiments that flew up with Dragon, such as flowering weeds and mouse stem cells.

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