By analysing someone's behaviour during a training period, a program called Busy Body can learn to tell what someone is doing and whether to interrupt him.

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Wei Jinpeng, the busy Lanzhou body fisher, keeps his inventory of dead people floating in a Yellow River cove facedown until customers buy the remains of their loved ones.

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Besides opening new branded stores, the company has also been busy expanding its product range, moving into both a bath-and-body line, perfumed essential oils and Italian hand-made leather goods.

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As the moment of decision arrived for banks and hedge funds, it was no surprise yesterday that European officials were busy handing out a report prepared by the Institute of International Finance, the body negotiating on behalf of some of the investors.

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In green transportation news, we watched in awe as Jeremy Clarkson took the world's smallest car -- which is basically a go-kart with body armor -- for a terrifying test drive on England's busy A3 highway.

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However, it was the beginning of a busy weekend and, not wanting to miss out on trade, Chidgey decided against telling anyone about the body, the court was told.

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