The majority leader also argued that the situation in Afghanistan can't be viewed in isolation and requires a regional approach that includes Pakistan and India.

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They couldn't be confronted in isolation.

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" Meanwhile, Fortune's David Kirkpatrick mused on the iPod phenomenon, declaring that a little isolation isn't necessarily such a bad thing: "Why do I, and so many others, want to cocoon ourselves off into our little music bubbles, even when we're out and about?

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"In isolation the game isn't really connected with what we've done, " he said.

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Currently, there's no option for cloth-wrapped padding -- Turtle Beach says most of the pro players it polled during the product-development phase didn't mind losing some breathability in favor of better isolation.

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In the Netherlands at-risk patients go into isolation, and doctors who are carriers are sent home and can't return until they are cleared, says Margreet Vos, who heads infection control at Erasmus University Medical Center.

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In fact, the XO's isolation from the Web might have been a reason why consumers didn't snap them up during the buy-one-donate-one promotion that allowed U.S. consumers to purchase XOs between November and January--the promotion ended Jan. 1.

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But he says a daily beating was much less painful than the isolation he felt when his family moved across the country and he couldn't seem to fit in.

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This situation leads to an infuriating vicious circle, in which teachers often don't take travellers seriously because of their poor record of staying on, thereby exacerbating their feelings of isolation and despondency.

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