Others regard Leeds, with its strong financial sector and service industries, as almost as alien as London.

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This free-for-all is almost as alien to the better educated, more law-abiding, Sunni citizens of Taiz, the most urbanised region in the north, or Hodeida, its main port, as it is to the southerners.

ECONOMIST: Yemen

In it, he claimed that intelligent alien life almost certainly exists and that the search for it is valuable.

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He sometimes campaigns like an alien on Dexedrine, all pumped and almost loony with focus, his face a fast-forward of mad spontaneities and grimacing sincerities.

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Almost every reference is some sort of exhortation to treat the alien with justice or compassion, sometimes in general terms, but often granting specific legal rights.

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