Among the laundry list of flaws reported are this model's small, dim screen, barely acceptable MP3 and call audio quality, lack of even EDGE-speed data, sub-four-hour battery life, limited filetype support, and flaky Bluetooth connection.

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Hijras are another sub-set of gay life.

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"We've lost 17 percent of all plant life in the Atlantic, 26 percent in the North Pacific and in the sub-tropical oceans 50 percent or more of plant life has disappeared, " he said.

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The third sub-question of how life managed to get going at all in the hostile arena of the early Earth, was neatly addressed by Charles Cockell, of Britain's Open University.

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Today, areas such as sub-Saharan Africa that have hosted human life for millennia still use far more phonemes in their languages than more recently colonized regions do.

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The half-life of a specialty is short, continually disintegrating into subspecialties, and sub-subspecialties, to the point where some doctors devote their whole career to one variant of one illness.

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The myriad regulatory bodies spanning so many facets of life all answer to different congressional sub-committees.

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Life expectancy has dived from the highest in sub-Saharan Africa to 36 years, one of the lowest.

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This research could help scientists find out more about possible life in Lake Vostok, the largest of over 70 sub-glacial lakes on the White Continent, which lies more than four km beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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The impossibly slim, sub-three-pound design is a huge boon, as is its long battery life and fast performance.

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