Certain news and magazine publications are now wary of news aggregators such as Flipboard, after seeing lumpy growth in advertising revenue from putting their content in the app.

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For many women who have despaired of ever ridding themselves of the lumpy fat deposits known as cellulite, the company's claims about Cellasene, however ill-supported, are persuasive enough.

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But they have failed to address the products' fundamental weakness: that a lumpy property portfolio is being sold as a cash asset, tradable at daily prices with limited downside risk.

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