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The first thing people will probably notice about Microsoft's line of Surface tablets is the price, which is cheaper than the iPad 3 at $499 for the 32GB model.

Get bear smart Last week was the one-year anniversary of Jeanie's death, Oct. 20, 2011.

Maybe they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union because they couldn't think of anybody else who wouldn't embarrass them. Nelson Mandela already has one. So does Aung San Suu Kyi.

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'The coach-athlete relationship is a fickle beast. It can be rewarding, difficult, pure magic or completely toxic.

Although I've been aware of Stack Exchange ( www.stackexchange.com ) for a long time, I've always assumed that its primary audience was programmers.

In Spain, the people are trying to deal with 25 per cent unemployment while the banks fret over more than 1.

The sad case of Maple Ridge's Amanda Todd made international news after the 15-year-old student, unable to evade her school bullies and a stalker, took her own life last week.

The critically important role of the arts in the academy, as in life, is to enable us to see the world and the human condition differently, and in seeing the world through a particular work of art, to see a truth we might not have understood before.

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