National Weather Service meteorologist "Skip" Ely said the dry pattern is caused by a persistent area of high pressure that has dominated North Texas weather since the end of June, blocking normal moisture flows across the South.

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But the discovery that the area surrounding the tachocline varies its rotation in a regular pattern could be a clue to solving the mystery.

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The area's new tranport system may start to shape the pattern of growth, as developers put their offices and houses within easy reach of it.

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Dana Diminescu, of France's Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, recently discovered that 11 villages in the Oas region of northern Romania, a poor farming area of about 70, 000 people, had generated a regular pattern of illegal migrants to Paris, almost all of whom eventually went back home.

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But, following a now familiar pattern, most of these troops have since been withdrawn from the area and the insurgents have reasserted themselves.

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The stock is rebuilding its pattern with a nice bounce It needs to hold here, the next pivot area is 45.50ish.

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Other California KIPP schools showed the same pattern in my research, confirmed and amplified by a study of the Bay Area KIPP schools by the research organization SRI International.

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The trading range, lines a and b, looks like a continuation pattern that should be resolved to the upside with targets in the 790-810 area.

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The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.

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