Given that it is highly unlikely they are loading it onto iPads for reading on the train journey home, that suggests they are monitoring and testing news for its value in automated trading.

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The woman on a train will most likely be reading Harry Potter while the man will be reading a biography of Sterling Moss.

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For teaching arithmetic, Inderjit used the train schedule, for reading the station signage.

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In 1994, he opened the Classics-Reading Promotion Center to train teachers.

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The plan is to have the link operational by 2017 with one train per hour from Reading to Oxford and Bedford, with the Oxford to Bedford stretch taking 60 minutes.

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As well as being used on banknotes and other documents to prove authenticity, the process could also be used in other areas, such as reading train or concert tickets.

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These days, I still read the London Times, I cherish every classic novel I purchase, but occasionally, just occasionally, I might be found on a tube train, reading a tabloid, totally oblivious to all the shocking headlines.

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