• The knife--originally knapped stone--has been the partner of the needle since the Paleolithic era.

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  • This was a stone--you can see it was a brick--it wasn't--this building survived Camille.

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  • Also, treating malaria kills two birds with one stone--its tied to poverty so tackling the disease makes fighting poverty easier.

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  • In the just-passed continuing resolution to fund government through September, supposedly cut-in-stone, our-hands-our-tied sequester cuts were reshuffled just like that.

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  • This magnificently restored 19th-century stone-and-brick neo-Gothic structure was built as a bank, but served most recently as the municipal conservatory.

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  • But Westwood is not blaming his new fitness regime, which has seen him lose a stone-and-a-half over the past eight weeks.

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  • The children went mad on our arrival and their football team happily beat us at a game of barefoot five-a-side on their stone-ridden playground.

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  • People think they are being efficient a kind of kill-two-birds-with-one-stone approach.

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  • The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.

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  • Dale, operating in a modern stone-and-wood restaurant designed by New York's AvroKo, plays with classics, grilling the romaine in a deconstructed Caesar salad, adding Cherry Coke to the sauce in a duck tamale, and marinating sushi-grade tuna in smoky Lapsang souchong tea with, respectively, good, bad, and indifferent results.

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  • His report - No Stone Unturned - was published last November and it advocated using Local Enterprise Partnerships to decide the allocation of central funding to projects.

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  • India has responded to the unrest in time-worn fashion: with extra troops, live bullets, the detention of separatist leaders who might lead big processions and, now, search-and-cordon operations to lock up suspected stone-pelters.

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  • Elsewhere, The Foxhunter, a Grade II-listed, stone-clad hotel set on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, offers tailored foraging courses depending on the season, and Monmouthshire farm Humble By Nature offers summer classes where you can learn how to tap and drink from beech trees and make puddings, preserves and syrups from the leaves and buds picked from rowan and bramble bushes.

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  • But in a boob-tube style purple sequinned tasselled dress, seven-and-a-half stone Victoria looked slight in comparison to the other girls.

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  • The game is also class-free, giving players a more open progression system which avoids those pre-game set-in-stone permanent decisions.

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  • But Radio 1 has no plans for similar regional shows in England, despite the presence of long-established local scenes in places such as Manchester - home of Oasis and the Stone Roses - and Bristol.

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  • To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.

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  • Bryngwyn is a solid, stone-built two-up-two down cottage which has stood empty since the 1940s.

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  • The pencil-slim Schwartzel - he's a shade under 6ft but weights just nine stone 12lbs - scrambled impressively, though, to find 72.2% of greens in regulation (fifth overall) and his putting shone too.

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  • And as we all know it came down to the final stone - it was 3-3 after nine ends and we had the hammer.

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  • Communication between Islamabad and New Delhi went stone-cold in late-2009.

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  • The log cabin-style main home features a stone wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors and extensive water and mountain views.

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  • After a meal of filet of kangaroo -- deliciously tender in a light pepper sauce, and served in the elegant dining room -- I wandered over to the century-old stone Woolshed Winery where estate-bottled wines and 20 other labels from local wineries are on sale at the cellar door.

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  • The pueblo of grass roofed buildings, round river-stone plazas and pre-Colombian magic is off limits to camera-clad foreigners.

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  • If you can't find stone-cut oats, steel-cut Irish oats also work.

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  • There's also a three-bedroom, two-bath stone cottage, a 5, 000-square-foot estate office and studio, and another studio that could be converted into a garage or stable.

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  • Developer William West Durant's Camp Pine Knot, begun on Raquette Lake in 1877, established the architectural idiom of these retreats--log-cabin construction, stone chimneys, decorative woodwork--and the camps proliferated throughout the dense woods of northeastern New York.

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  • So, for some - such as the journalist Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone - it is scandalous that criminal charges should not be brought against HSBC, given that many thousands of US citizens are jailed every year for possessing relatively small quantities of drugs (see Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke, Rolling Stone).

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  • The bottom line is this: why even take the risk of developing a kidney stone-with its attendant pain and suffering-if high dose vitamin C has never been proven to have beneficial effects on our quality of health and risk for developing cardiovascular disease as well as cancer?

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