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I have no interest in each new benchmark for cop movies, and each new attempt quickly devolves into the same two-hour-plus star vehicle with little room for anything but the male lead; Blow, Traffic, The Departed, Prince of the City, Carlitos Way.

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This means that a lot of people are just left completely dissatisfied and incredulous when I attempt to explain consciousness.

Jeff Hawkins, this morning, was describing his attempt to get theory, and a good, big theory, into the neuroscience.

By the way, Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP, had a plaque on his desk inscribed with this inspirational slogan: "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

So my own surgeon performed the procedure in a last-ditch attempt to save my voice.

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