"I feel strongly the season needs to be made much shorter, with more breaks for players to rest in order to be in peak condition when we do play, " said the Russian.

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If one wanted to be downbeat (which we do not) it would be easy to draw an analogy the condition of financial institutions in Japan, banks, securities firm, and insurance companies, and the society in general: aging, increasingly frail and infirm, and shrinking at a painfully slow pace.

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Like poverty or ethnic and religious conflict, climate change is not something likely to be solved, eliminated or ended, but rather a condition that society will struggle to do better or worse at in managing.

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