• Although the exact numbers of smokers in housing projects are unknown, about 30 percent of Americans living below the poverty line smoke tobacco, more than 1.5 times the rate of those who live above it.

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  • So the people in Chad, although living a less technologically advanced life than we do likely feel that they are thriving in life, just as many Americans do.

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  • Doctors told him she had died from a respiratory illness but he believes that it was exposure to formaldehyde that killed her - although there is no proof her death was linked to living in the trailer.

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  • The hardships Lui faced when he first came to Hong Kong in the 1930s, living hand to mouth, still influences his desire to keep working, although he now leaves the responsibility for day-to-day operations to his family and senior executives.

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  • Although reunification undoubtedly hit the city economically, cheap rents and low living costs in the east led to an influx of artists and other creative types and the emergence of a vibrant subculture.

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  • So, many people who can move do, although it is not an inexpensive maneuver, particularly given the high cost of living in this little city-state.

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  • But the Brotherhood, although legally banned in Egypt for decades and living in a shadow world politically, was nonetheless a major factor in what happened next.

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  • The ophthalmologist and his family were still living in tents, although they did, thanks to extension cords running from their half-destroyed house, have electricity now.

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  • About 1, 500 people in Louisiana are still living in temporary housing, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, although that is down from a high of more than 90, 000.

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  • Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins said although she was sure that everybody in the chamber supported the concept of a 'living wage', some businesses are concerned about the expansion of such a policy, as the increase in costs could lead to job losses.

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  • Although the bathrooms are still bigger than most people's living rooms, it is all done in an understated and elegant way, a million miles from the gold taps and acres of shag-pile which once defined Dubai.

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  • People in cities and towns have an utopian view of living in the countryside, but unless you have the money it is far from idyllic, although I am sure 99.9% would not change for living in town.

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  • Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.

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  • Although "ten a penny" in terms of their abundance, the fossils still hide some secrets about the living animals' ecology.

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  • The Irish also qualify as the most cosmopolitan with none of their players earning a living in their own country, although maybe this is a bit spurious, since they all play in England, and most of them could probably have qualified to play for England had they wanted to.

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