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I know what I would want โ look at the headlines that you want to read and you come across during the day using links passed/forwarded by acquantiances, contacts, friends, RSS readers, etc. and use tools like instapaper to mark what you want to read later and use home-staying e-reader device like a Sony ebook reader or Kindle to fetch those items and read at leisure.
Print is still king: Only 3 percent of newspaper reading happens online ยป Nieman Journalism Lab 2009
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They will be home-staying, taking classes at Rogelio Ballesteros 'Amigos del Sol language institute, visiting the outlying villages to view their wares, visiting Tule, Monte Alban, and possibly Hierve al Agua.
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They will be home-staying, taking classes at Rogelio Ballesteros 'Amigos del Sol language institute, visiting the outlying villages to view their wares, visiting Tule, Monte Alban, and possibly Hierve al Agua.
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They will be home-staying, taking classes at Rogelio Ballesteros 'Amigos del Sol language institute, visiting the outlying villages to view their wares, visiting Tule, Monte Alban, and possibly Hierve al Agua.
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They will be home-staying, taking classes at Rogelio Ballesteros 'Amigos del Sol language institute, visiting the outlying villages to view their wares, visiting Tule, Monte Alban, and possibly Hierve al Agua.
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A very agricola laboriosus was I to travellers bound westward through Lincoln and Wayland to nobody knows where; they sitting at their ease in gigs, with elbows on knees, and reins loosely hanging in festoons; I the home-staying, laborious native of the soil.
Walden 2004
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Never seemed Miss Nan so far removed as then from him, the home-staying dreamer.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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His unfortunate train time and his home-staying habits kept him from meeting the newcomer.
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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And there were some less nice in appetite who had raked out heaps of glowing cinders from the fire, and had lain succulent slices thereon and buried them in more cinders, and who were now enjoying a compound feast of pork and charcoal, with such an insane relish as no home-staying epicure could conceive over the lordliest dish the combined cuisine of the whole wide world could show him.
VC โ A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray
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The Italian peoples, in consequence, instead of putting to sea, remained a conservative, home-staying folk, who were slow to adopt the customs of other nations.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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