As you see in our photo gallery, the tablet is roughly the same size and thickness of a netbook when combined with the keyboard dock, and we never felt like the slate was about to tumble out of its cradle.

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But she took a big risk, and was hired as a writer for slate.com, where she immediately felt at home.

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Not long afterward, he found himself in the pine-panelled room where he had first met the new girl, only the pool table had been gouged repeatedly the felt ragged and upstanding, a corona of slate dust spewing from every gash and the half-size refrigerator was on its side, door open, empty of beer.

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