"You can see a few almost every clear dark night if you look long enough, but periodically the Earth passes through a dense swarm of these particles which have only recently come from their parent comet, giving what we call a meteor shower, " he said.

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"People yield a deference to what we may call the theatrical show of society, " he wrote.

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But, he said, "there are varying stages of what we call paralysis or weakness" on her right side.

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"We cannot call what's happening on the ground a full cease-fire, " he told reporters.

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One of Japan's richest men, with the potential to call on an army of lawyers to defend what he claims is his invention, we probably ought to.

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He is working to change a lot of things there - but you know France is what we call 'an old grandmother' - it is difficult to change.

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