Start with a couple of days in elegant Edinburgh to revel in the Georgian architecture of New Town and the history of Edinburgh Castle, which broods silently over the city from its craggy perch.

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China's ZTE, which has somehow silently risen through the ranks to become the world's number six phone manufacturer by volume, is said to be prepping a renewed global assault that will see it move beyond its typical role as a provider of low-end dumbphone fare to occupy the low-end smartphone niche, a market with traditionally limited choice.

ENGADGET: ZTE looking to move upmarket, build lots of smartphones

This area is activated when you talk to yourself inside your head or count silently, which is called subvocal speech.

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There was a white fireplace in which hooks of orange light leaped silently from wood to blackened brick.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

In a truly creepy moment, Caesar goes back to the house in which he was raised and stares silently at Will and his girlfriend (Freida Pinto) in bed together.

NEWYORKER: Noble Creatures

The lunar procession zigzagged around uptown, then started down Broadway, and came quickly and silently to converge with the other procession, which was dragging its balloon giant along Fifth Avenue.

NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon

However, if you escape that risk by parking your assets exclusively in cash-like investments, you are likely exposing yourself to the possibility that inflation will silently erode the purchasing power of your portfolio, which can lead to the ultimate risk of not achieving your long-term goals.

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Protester Dominic Burrows, 45, from Southend-on-Sea, who wore a V for Vendetta mask, said he was happy to demonstrate peacefully and silently over what he saw as the grand way in which her death was being marked.

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Silently and meaningfully she opened her empty pack of cigarettes, which I quickly filled with my Marlboros.

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The adoption of a transparent attitude, of which an editors' blog is just a part, is a statement that journalism isn't made silently behind the walls of a castle, he says.

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