Ultimately, I took my love and tested it by moving to Eritrea to work for two years.

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Unlike Apple, which places increasingly tight control over what people can put on iPads, Google seems to want as many outsiders as possible to put anything they want on Android, with the fastest possible velocity of successful apps moving through the system (love an app, and you can automatically Tweet a link to its app store location).

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Swedish-born brothers Erik and Kent Widman formed Love in October in 2006, after moving to Minneapolis, Minn.

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If you love fast-moving, witty, deeply felt, beautifully written novels of ordinary life, you need to know about the hidden treasure that is Madeleine St.

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The theater was Stapleton's first love and she compiled a rich resume, starting in 1941 as a New England stock player and moving to Broadway in the 1950s and '60s.

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It's a simple, heartfelt and moving moment of visible emotion for a young love interlude between our Alice and the Jack she chose to stand by throughout the course of these adventures.

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