And while we sometimes fall down on the job, we bring to the political arena a certain battle-hardened skepticism.

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But it sure can dish up some compensating amusement while we wait for the roof to fall in.

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"While we are striving for perfection in the way we deliver care, we know we fall short of that mark -- but patients can help us get better, " says Nancy Foster, AHA's vice president for quality and patient safety policy.

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"While in some areas we are seeing a maturing population and a fall in the demand for school places, in others, with more people moving in and an increase in birth rates, there will be a need for more places, " said Councillor Les Wicks.

BBC: Medway draws up plans for new school places

While serious bartenders tend to assemble their tools piecemeal, we layfolk often fall for the convenience of bar-in-a-box type sets.

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While the world should be cheering the Honduran election as we did the fall of the Berlin wall, international opinion continues to turn against them.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Champions of democracy

The jury is still out on this, but regardless of whether we ever discover such an educational panacea, my fear is that while we search for this single solution, generations of American children will fall through the cracks.

CNN: Commentary: Give kids a beacon of hope

Spend a day there (or three, as I did while we waited for the boat's engine to be fixed), and you will fall in love with the friendly, beach bum lifestyle.

BBC: This is Miami week

This meant that for the drop-test we were able to let the Panasonic free-fall from a height of three feet, while the GammaTech was dropped from a somewhat less realistic (in terms of likely real-world falls) one foot.

ENGADGET: Durable faceoff and torture test: Panasonic's Toughbook 30 vs. GammaTech's Durabook D15RP