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While 32, 000 people in a population of 1.5m have no running water, 100, 000 or so get water once in every two or three days.
ECONOMIST: The Gaza Strip: Not nearly back to normal | The
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There's been a drop in kidnappings of ethnic Chinese businessmen -- the number has fallen from one every two days to once a week since Estrada took office.
FORBES: The Ronald Reagan of the Pacific
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Once, he spent twenty-two days walking across Texas with nothing but a bedroll, a flashlight, and a rifle, from Big Bend, in the west, to Houston, where he was going to deliver a paper at a biology conference.
NEWYORKER: In the Air
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American soldiers in Ghazni once described scanning a dead insurgent, then two days later getting a call from the CIA to say that his record matched someone first scanned in Iraq.
ECONOMIST: Biometric data and the Afghan war
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Mothers were instructed to discontinue the formula supplementation once their milk supply appeared, which generally takes two to five days.
CNN: How formula could increase breast-feeding rates
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Toward the end of the two days, one Samsung executive joked that perhaps once Samsung obtains government approval for its new devices, the NSA could get U.S. President Barack Obama, well known as a BlackBerry and iPad user, to take up a Samsung device.
WSJ: Pentagon Expects to Enlist Apple, Samsung Devices
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The thrill of reaching Thorong La pass, which once took an inspiring two weeks, will be shortened to two days, and this epic and emotional day, which haunts you in the most motivating way, will lose much of its glory if reached by such an industrial path.
BBC: Nepal��s shrinking Annapurna Circuit
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For the next two days, Husna stayed in the annex, without once going out.
NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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The first two days of the game is what cost us the Test match once again.
BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Ashes 2005 | Aussies unlikely to make changes