But in a world in love with trains, what do costs matter when they are going to replace the beastly car and the beastlier lorry?

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In a world before Youtube, when someone wanted to declare their undying love for Pokemon, he had to go shouting in on the streets like a crazy person.

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Mr. GENE PITNEY (Singer, Songwriter): (Singing) When you're young and so in love as we, and bewildered by the world we see.

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If you think people around the world don't love us today, how will it be when America has everything and no one else has anything from their point of view?

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Istanbul was visited by Bond in From Russia With Love, The World is Not Enough, and will be thrust into the spotlight when it hosts perhaps the most famous moment in any Bond film, the opening action sequence, for Skyfall.

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When a young, dewy-faced Gwyneth Paltrow accepted the Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare In Love, the world caught a four-minute glimpse of the Harry Winston Princess Necklace, glistening in time with every benevolent gesture.

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The Philippines dropped all charges against Onel de Guzman , a 24-year-old computer school dropout suspected of releasing the "I Love You" virus that cost billions of dollars worth of damage when it deleted hard drives around the world in May.

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Makhubela is hoping her new-found love of the game extends long enough for her to be able to watch some of the matches when the World Cup begins in June.

CNN: World Cup fever grips African grannies

The first question I had when reading about Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla, who inconveniently fell in love when both were married to other people, is why they would want to share the inflammatory story with the world.

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