We also went back to the future with a look at Nike's new pair of LED studded kicks, and we spotted a slick set of retro robots made from salvaged materials.

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However, we did encounter a snag: when we searched for "My friends who like the San Francisco 49ers who also went to Stanford, " we encountered no results.

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We also were able to go to a fashion--a hair show--excuse me--in London, and here in America, we went to salons in Washington, DC, and also in New York City, and we asked friends to recommend women to us which we thought would give us a great story and also had a unique hairstyle.

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But I also knew that we had to do it because if they went down, your local banks would have gone down.

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Also, we do have to be careful about speculating on what went on inside a closed-door proceeding from which everyone except the participants, of course, was excluded.

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They apparently also managed to get into trouble when it went out of Bluetooth range (we could introduce them to some guys who could help with that) just flitting around in an office, so it seems there's some refinement still to be done all round.

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We also visited David Braben, the man who created the legendary game Elite in the 1980s and went on to run a successful games business.

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Don't forget, in the decade before the crash, 90 percent of the gains went to the top 10 percent, 43 percent to the top 1 percent, and we also paid -- got most of the tax cuts.

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The future was also a preoccupation among the women we talked to in a western suburb of Houston called Cinco Ranch, where we went to a birthday party at a French bakery.

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