Turning Facebook into a place where any developer could create applications for the community has super-charged the growth of the service ever since.

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The new cyberlocker service is a simplified, super-encrypted successor to Megaupload, the file-sharing site that once reputedly accounted for 4% of all internet traffic, and which US prosecutors had taken offline moments before the helicopters descended in New Zealand a year ago.

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Recently I wrote about the indefatigable, on-the-field leadership of Ray Lewis, the inside linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens who is responsible, in part, for the team winning Super Bowl XLVII and who is retiring after 17 years of all-star service to the game.

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The industry was super competitive, and service providers were looking ways to improve customer loyalty and use of higher-margin data plans.

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"A hen in Guantanamo has laid a six-ounce 'super egg, ' challenging the Guinness world record, " the EFE News Service reported in July 2008.

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Too frail for military service, art student Steve Rogers volunteered for an experiment to create an army of super-soldiers.

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In March, the service announced plans to reduce the number of ambulance stations from 65 to 28, creating nine "super-hubs", 19 smaller stations and 108 community points, changes which it said would improve response times.

BBC: Derby