The FAA bill is basically on the floor as a time-killer while the Senate is waiting for the House to send a continuing resolution.

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But even later when my magazine reading went on line, for years in DC my go-to time-killer was to spend some time in a Borders flipping through graphic novels or books.

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This is how a once-curable killer has, over time, become almost untreatable again.

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This type of discussion tends to come up every time it's revealed that a high-profile killer also played video games.

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But the killer blow came just after half-time.

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Around this time scientists gained chilling new insights into how killer bugs work--and how they shrewdly pass on their most lethally effective traits to one another and even to bugs of other species.

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The Brazilian was one of the better players on show in the defeat at Tottenham but against Stoke's five-man containing midfield he found it difficult to find the time to provide the sort of killer passes Alonso was renowned for.

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And for all Arsenal's pretty passing and intricate patterns in the second half, it was Chelsea who applied the killer blow five minutes from time when Alex concluded a fast bowler's run-up with a true touch of Brazil as he lashed a long-range free-kick high beyond Lukasz Fabianski.

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