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Throughout the two Sudans, access to primary school education is strongly linked to household earnings.

Time and again, airlines managed to reduce excess costs and improve profitability by growing larger in scale. Slate (Oct 16, 2013)

Letters will be mailed to the affected owners starting next month.

It could also allow doctors to avoid giving children medicine that would have devastating side effects. Slate (Oct 21, 2013)

He received a chance to make amends when an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty was called on New England's Chris Jones.

The following were identified as spelling or typographic errors and have been emended as noted. Hopper, James

Biannual exhibitions will complement shows at the Louvre in Paris.

The biennial competition against the United States will take place in Scotland.

"I thought people would behave well, they would have courtesy, good manners."

And unlike outdoor running, training on a treadmill ensures you are running at your intended pace, she said.

In close to 80 years of operation, no one has ever lost a penny of insured deposits.

Within seconds a wave of moist heat creeps up around your ankles and over your legs before enveloping your whole body.

Shaking, he looked around before reading the words scrawled on the envelope.

I huffed, puffed, fell over a few times and was absolutely exhausted by the end of the session.

The bloggers have been providing important analysis to governments and human rights groups based on their exhaustive monitoring of social media.

European Parliament president, Martin Schulz, is formally opening the second October plenary session from Strasbourg. BBC (Jan 11, 2013)

He was formerly chief financial officer and group development director at Sainsbury's, He oversaw changes including store refurbishments, new products and improvements to digital marketing.

But just how impractical are those emissions limits on coal? Forbes (Sep 12, 2013)

There is a luxurious master suite with fireplace, sitting room, bath and walk-in closets, plus three other bedroom suites. Forbes (Aug 28, 2013)

The luxuriant beard cultivated like a halo has almost been trimmed away.

The permissible number of events gradually increases each year until age 18, when all limitations are lifted.

Previous U.S. annual reports on trafficking have also denounced Venezuela's "weak judicial system" and its "generally permissive and corrupt environment."

Can physical activity help kids do better in school?

But by Monday, authorities said it appeared that verbal sparring of a more general nature had preceded the stabbing.

Civil cases require a lower burden of proof than criminal cases, and can often be wrapped up quicker than parallel criminal proceedings.

She had been admitted following vomiting and drowsiness and doctors prescribed intravenous fluids.

The Tamil Tigers, or LTTE, are a proscribed terrorist organisation in many capitals.

Ms. Shook said removing passengers from planes is a last recourse.

The school also pioneered investing in hedge funds and other alternative assets, including natural resources.

“The Boy Scout law says to be reverent, which of course means respecting and honoring God.” New York Times (May 24, 2013)

I'm talking about what's called biogas, produced by treating the septic tanks attached to toilets.

The boundary layer is tiny by human standards—it operates on a scale small enough that normally slippery gas particles behave like viscous fluids. Slate (Mar 8, 2013)

But if you ask me, these are all hobbies that Mr. Dufresne picked up while pursuing his true vocation as mad neurologist.

He came in, and I was at once impressed by his grave and reverend appearance. Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de

“People seemingly treated the furlough as a vacation, spending even more time in expensive restaurants.”