"The campaign must pay for travel to any destination where campaign activity takes place, regardless of what else happens at the destination, " Biersack said.

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But for the world outside America, there is something else to worry about: what happens in the world's biggest economy has big implications for economic activity everywhere else.

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So what does that mean for anyone else who happens to own the name Sandy?

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Life, it's been said, is what happens when you're waiting for something else.

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These are the people who wait to see what is going to happen, hoping that somebody else solves the problem for them or that something happens and miraculously changes the situation.

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If nothing else it saves us the trouble later of deciding what to do to the lion after the obvious happens.

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What actually happens to the original person when their bio-molecular details are "faxed" somewhere else, and whether your average person on the street would be happy to be reassembled as a similar but at the same time slightly different average person on the street, are, thinks Bennett, moot points.

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