This question delivered one of the most central messages of the whole poll.

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"We'd just like to thank the whole world for sending us messages and keeping us in their prayers, " Manaway said.

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Noise levels remained more or less constant the whole time, suggesting that verbal messages were not as important.

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He added that while short messages on Twitter could not carry the whole teachings of the Catholic Church, they would help spread the word to those who wanted to hear.

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Globe subscribers send 10 million messages daily, more than the number in the whole of Europe.

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"If he had seen some sort of security threat or had some issue he wanted resolved, he could have read the text messages, but I feel he just took the whole issue too far, " says Andrew Locke, a junior at the school.

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