Dr Cole suspects this could help explain not only why the lonely are iller, but how, in evolutionary terms, this odd state of affairs has come about.
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But its odd, state-dominated economy makes it particularly sensitive to verdicts of this kind.
In France, health care is an odd mix of state-run and private insurance, as well as state-run and privately-run care facilities.
We would rather expect to have greater income inequality between the 20 million odd in NY State than we would in the 500, 000 in Wyoming.
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And in an odd way, this State of the Union address brings the Bush presidency full circle.
The digital age has opened the odd crack in the state's information monopoly.
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Most African heads of state see nothing odd in using the trappings of office to campaign for re-election.
Its leader, Aslan Abashidze, runs an odd and throughly autocratic mini-state, Ajaria, on the Black Sea border with Turkey.
The lifestyle has to be manageable, and you have to be willing to follow a rather irregular schedule where at a moments notice, you can find yourself in another state, another country, or odd surprises like aircraft carriers and such.
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He is particularly keen to relieve the state's 1, 000-odd local jurisdictions of the need to haggle with the unions over benefits.
Instead he worked low-paying odd jobs and began self-study, finally passing the state bar examination in 1975.
First, it strikes me as odd that the announcement about the sanctions was made by the State Department.
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And of the 600-odd biggest, about 100 get a chunk of their capital from big state entities.
Some progress has been made in tackling the cults at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, thanks to 200-odd security officers, covert surveillance and student informants.
The Independence stadium in Lusaka, once the pride of the nation but neglected for most of its 40-odd years, has been out of action for several months due to its dilapidated state.
There, too, he played the odd man out, running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994 and 1996 as a Republican in a traditionally Democratic state.
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