Of course you can't get so arrogant and pig-headed that you stop listening to others and heeding their advice, but you should never get so overwhelmed by doubters that you stop.

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Zopo's now accepting pre-orders for the first 5, 000 C2s and will be shipping before the end of the month, so if you have an account on Tmall and don't mind being a guinea pig then go for it.

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"I don't feel comfortable being a guinea pig, " Hemnani said.

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Don't get us wrong, the refinements definitely help, but at the end of the day we just hope it isn't RIM trying to put lipstick on a pig -- guess we'll find out when we get a commercial release to really bite into.

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In Germany, where people pig out on bratwurst and don't seem to slam away a whole lot of salad, the economy is thriving.

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Which is not to say back alleys aren't still called "lanes, " or oyster-and-pig roasts on neighboring Tybee Island are no longer steeped in local fish-camp-hunt club tradition.

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"You bring in an independent advisory panel to 'put the lipstick on the pig' to salvage Vytorin, and you can't do that right, " says Bart Stupak, D-Mich.

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Unless you read Hogs Today magazine, you probably don't know that Murphy Family Farms is by far the nation's largest pig farmer.

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And who among us hasn't stepped on a bathroom scale to determine the damage from a previous night's pig-out?

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Authorities said one test detected a pig-borne disease in the river called porcine circovirus, but that doesn't normally affect humans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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