Motiram, a 46-year-old who goes by only one name, stood over a dirt-filled sack weighing 110 pounds.

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Sumi, a 25-year-old worker who goes by one name, said she was sewing jeans on the fifth floor with at least 400 others when the building fell.

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"If I'm at an event sponsored by a designer, I pick at the really chic food passed around, " said Lauren Shane, a 28-year-old stylist who goes by the name elshane and works for celebrities such as pop-star Carly Rae Jepsen.

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This reviewer's choice as the best book of the year, however, goes to a slim volume put out by Oxford University Press that deserves to be a classic.

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Last week British police said they had arrested another U.K. member of LulzSec who goes by the name Tflow, a 16-year old male.

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If all goes well, exports could reach 120m litres a year by 2010, and perhaps as much as 400m in the more distant future.

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Williams, who now goes by the name Shyteek Johnson, completed a 12-year prison sentence in April 2010 but has remained in custody as the state seeks to have him committed indefinitely under a civil law that allows extended confinement for sex offenders with mental abnormalities that make them likely to offend again.

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Not a day goes by that he doesn't think of his 63-year-old mother's plight.

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If all goes as planned, the company will turn a profit next year and go public by the end of 1998.

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