And across the country, many small businesses that were once the beating heart of the community are now empty storefronts haunting our main streets.

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" The show's best moments exposed the essence of Nico's compositions: The excellent Joan Wasser, who performs as Joan as Police Woman, tapped the raw anguish in "My Heart Is Empty" and "Ari's Song, " while Jonathan Donahue of Mercury Rev delivered with muted joy the stark poetic imagery of "Evening of Light.

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But the scheme has been so successful that many beds earmarked for heart patients are now lying empty.

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Wigan football club chairman Dave Whelan told the Today programme on Friday that Liverpool had "no heart beating" after noticing an empty directors' box at Anfield.

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When a reporter passed away a few years back, dropping dead from an unexpected heart attack, his friend placed the potted plants he kept at the office on the now-empty desk.

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