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 | BCE Inc. is in talks that could lead to the largest buyout in Canadian history. |
 | Canada's largest telecommunications company is speaking with a group of investors about taking the firm private. |
 | BCE confirmed the talks Tuesday, following weeks of speculation about the future of the company. |
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Greek Analects (4544 words) |
 | Anaximander (circa 611-547 BCE), born in Miletus, proposed that the universe originated with the separation of opposites from a primordial material, referred to as the "non-limited". |
 | Pythagoras (circa 580-500 BCE), was born in Samos, Ionia, moving to Italy in about 532 BCE to establish an academy at Croton devoted to religious and philosophical studies, which continued after his death. |
 | Heraclitus (circa 540-480 BCE), born in Ephesus in Anaolia, considered fire the basic material of the universe but extended the notion of fire to the smoke that rises from it and thence to the atmosphere as a whole. |