The summer months see Times Square overrun by visitors all scrambling for their "I Heart NYC" t-shirt and matching sun visor, while the Empire State Building's elevator queue can, through the heat-haze, seem to extend as far, horizontally, as the iconic building stretches for the skies.

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His chubby pal Ryan -- in matching devil-dice T-shirt -- is collateral damage.

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Even worse for investors: Some funds haven't come close to matching high-yield bond indexes.

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One team that included Bay and Dillon Gee came in matching Molson Canadian T-shirts.

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Of the millions of people with sickle-cell disease in the world, only some 300 have received a bone marrow transplant because of age (doctors won't perform the procedure on patients 16 years and older) and donor-matching problems.

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On the other side, things weren't all that bleak despite the disappointment of being done and matching a season-low for points.

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Dr. ANDREW EINSTEIN (Cardiologist, Columbia University): Using beta-blockers or other medications to lower patient's heart rate, which in many cases will chip the radiation dose down by minimizing the number of images which are taken, and matching the technical parameters such that the patient doesn't receive too many x-rays.

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Democrats are going along because the debt increase isn't contingent on matching cuts to the budget, as long demanded by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

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