So when a review copy of Top Spin 4 recently landed on my desk, I greeted it with mixed emotions.

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Its success has overwhelmingly been due to developing copy-cat technologies and paying top dollar to buy promising small firms.

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Ever since Sony's PSone popularized the concept of game consoles with an LCD screen on top, third party manufacturers have rushed to produce copy-cat devices for each and every console under the sun.

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Too bad that that very day muggers assaulted his top aide in a taxi, carrying off, not least, a copy of the mayor's inaugural speech.

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Betsy Walsh let me leaf through a lesser-known copy, rebound in morocco leather sometime in the 19th century, the top edge of the pages gilded.

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To make it less overwhelming, he suggests making sure the "retweets enabled" checkbox near the top is unchecked to eliminate duplicate tweets that occur as people interested in the fire copy updates to share with their own Twitter followers.

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You may not notice the glossy facade at first, however, as the biggest hardware change in the new PS3 is where you insert disc-based media: a top-loading slider gets moved to the left, revealing a space for your brand new copy of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Game of the Year Edition (bundled with the 250GB console).

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Using a corps of government-trained experts--a top designation is "Scers, " for Seize Computer Evidence Recovery Specialists--the group can copy the hard drives on 300 computers in a day, says Thomas Aleman, global leader of the unit.

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Amiss said the Australian model, where there are only six or seven top regional sides and far fewer professionals, was often being held up as a model for England to copy.

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