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• Ian Cochrane — (November 7, 1941 September 7, 2004) was a novelist and creative writing teacher. His novels are known for dark humour and tragic endings.Cochrane was born in Ballymena and grew up in rural Antrim, in Northern Ireland. He said, We lived in a… …   Wikipedia

• contrived — [adj] overly planned affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous; concepts 564,582 …   New thesaurus

• Computers and Information Systems — ▪ 2009 Introduction Smartphone: The New Computer.       The market for the smartphone in reality a handheld computer for Web browsing, e mail, music, and video that was integrated with a cellular telephone continued to grow in 2008. According to… …   Universalium

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