• This happens when two exams - perhaps an A-level and an AS-level re-take - are timetabled for the same time.

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  • When a patient calls 111, an operator - who is trained in the same way as a 999 operator - can send out an ambulance, put someone straight through to a nurse, book an out-of-hours GP appointment, or direct the caller to a pharmacist or dentist.

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  • Yet just last week came news that Amazon deforestation had increased almost six-fold in just a year - an astonishing rise, and a trend large enough, if it continues, to guarantee the emissions target won't be met.

    BBC: Brazil passes 'retrograde' forest code

  • If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.

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  • Lawyers for the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) claim the two men - a lawyer and an economist - as representatives of a mysterious offshore company, ignored an injunction against any transfer of debts surrounding the mall.

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  • Every time the enzyme connects two bases--an A to a T or a C to a G--an electrically charged ion is released and detected by sensors on the machine.

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  • The original design was chosen in 1927 by an architect - Sir Reginald Blomfield - who wanted a design closer to the true sense of a pylon - an Egyptian gateway to the sun.

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  • Rather than simply buy a pied-a-terre in an enviable locale by which to park money as a long-term investment, more wealthy buyers are snapping up properties that they can rent out as income-producing assets.

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  • Originally an adaptation of an earlier device called a maser - an electronic oscillator that operated at very high radio frequencies - the laser was first demonstrated by Theodore Maiman in 1960.

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  • Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.

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  • While recently waiting to have his hair cut, Timothy Lytle, 26, received an e-mail from a client--an e-commerce Web site whose downloading function had crashed.

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  • He has attempted to etch-a-sketch an issue that inevitably leaves an un-erasable dark shadow on the screen.

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  • "When they were in the job, they knew with complete and unerring certainty that on the economy, we were playing five-a-side football against an 11-a-side on a full international pitch, " he said.

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  • Manning, like Kitzmiller, operates out of Texas and--with his 15 pairs of boots, 5 Stetsons, a Harley-Davidson and an SUV with a Lone Star flag--considers himself a native.

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  • TARA's founders, raves about a recent find in the Tassili n'Ajjer range: an anatomically perfect four-metre-long carving of a hippo hunted by an Egyptian-looking figure with a superbly sinuous bow.

    ECONOMIST: African rock art

  • Thor has never had an unprofitable year--a rarity for an RV company--not even during the downturn in the late 1980s (though Thompson took no salary for two years to stay in the black).

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  • The APS news agency cited local officials as saying two Britons and two Filipinos were killed in the military operation, after two other people - a Briton and an Algerian - died on Wednesday when the militants ambushed a bus that was taking workers to the local airport.

    BBC: Algeria hostage crisis: 'About 10 Britons' remain captive

  • Michael Egan made a mid-nine-figure fortune building Alamo Rent-A-Car into an industry powerhouse, and though he isn't much of a gear-head, his decades in the travel business convinced him that we haven't even begun to see the changes that will be wrought by information technologies.

    CNN: Web pioneers lay foundation for cyber-communities

  • Allen hit a jumper, Norris Cole threw a half-court lob pass to Wade for an alley-oop dunk and Allen made a 3-pointer, giving Miami an 84-77 lead.

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  • The Department for Education emphasised this would not mean the end of A-levels - but the addition of an A-Bacc, which would include A-levels, as a new measure for schools.

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  • President Obama and his allies insist that that law - which is incessantly and incorrectly called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the nickname for a Clinton-era Defense Department regulation that was intended to undermine the statute by allowing gays to serve as long as they kept their sexual preferences a secret - is a throw-back to an by-gone era.

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  • Although the short cocktail menu showcases unusual drinks like the Nice Legs -- made with gin, Barolo Chinato (an Italian digestive), Gentian (a bitter root) and orange peel -- many patrons will order a classic like an Old-Fashioned (bourbon whiskey, sugar, Angostura bitters, club soda and lemon peel) or leave their choice in the hands of the bartender.

    BBC: The best cocktail bar in the US

  • One thing that the House could do in its few days here in Washington before it goes off again on recess is follow the Senate's lead and pass a tax cut -- an extension of a tax cut or tax cuts -- for the middle class, 98 percent of the American people.

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  • If a house is tied to old-money heritage or an A-list celebrity, the premium on its price can be as much as 15% to 20%, says New York real-estate broker Barbara Corcoran.

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  • This was not a -- this was an additional meeting to the routine meetings.

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  • This was -- this isn't -- this is a -- this is an American problem.

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  • So I try to keep a - keep an open mind to any accent that I can possibly have.

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  • Say a municipality was refinancing a triple-A-rated bond an investor bought three years ago with a yield of 3.37%.

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  • One, there is a -- we have an agreed-upon, appointed process for the continuing of those conversations to happen very quickly.

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  • In Turkey a cigerci is a seller of liver and lungs and the Danish have a fyrassistent - an assistant lighthouse keeper.

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