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  • I would NOT be interested to donate my ‘puter’s spare-time without further clarification whether the effort would result in a “patentable” hybrid available only thru one or two seed-suppliers, or whether the results would be freely available to all organizations that wish to develop the seeds for their local farmers … ..

    Join the Hunt for Super-Rice - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • When I have any, one of my favorite spare-time activities is browsing astro-ph Hey, I did say, in my profile, that I am hooked on astronomy!

    This Week's astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate's Best Pick | Universe Today 2010

  • Web Worker Daily highlights some sound tactics for the spare-time or full-time freelancer trying to get their paychecks to arrive in orderly fashion.

    Offer Small Discounts to Get Freelance Pay On Time | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Mr. Bogdanor remembers the Conservative leader as one of the ablest pupils he ever taught -- a "nice, courteous, old-fashioned" student whose main spare-time activities were playing cricket and tennis, "badly."

    A Tory Star Rises as Threat to Brown 2009

  • Jake Winter, a US Army veteran who is a political insider and spare-time university academic, is called in by the White House -- not only to investigate the case but also to distance the president from any possible fallout.

    Sunday Salon: Dead Watch Maxine 2007

  • According to what i hear daily creativ activities are told like a spare-time for Women ,when Mens are much more seen like serious artists.

    Food for thought Glenda Larke 2009

  • Jake Winter, a US Army veteran who is a political insider and spare-time university academic, is called in by the White House -- not only to investigate the case but also to distance the president from any possible fallout.

    November 2007 Maxine 2007

  • Jake Winter, a US Army veteran who is a political insider and spare-time university academic, is called in by the White House -- not only to investigate the case but also to distance the president from any possible fallout.

    Sunday Salon: Dead Watch Maxine 2007

  • Letting the creative juices flow in a blog or other spare-time activities seems to be happening too rarely these days.

    Another birthday, little blog! 2009

  • It used to be said that middle-aged people vote because their jobs, families and spare-time activities give them a sense of involvement with society; by contrast, younger people, so the theory went, saw themselves as free-floating, marginal, and unable to make a difference.

    Julian Chryssavgis: Vying For The Coveted Demographic: Mobilizing America's Youth and Changing the Face of American Politics 2008

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