The overall goal is to have students who are able to read complex technical documents as well as poetry and prose.

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Youngsters were taking part in a range of athletic and other sporting events, as well as other competitions including dance, poetry and singing.

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He might as well have asked to read me poetry, for all that I was persuaded he wanted my replies.

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In recent years, they have found ways to encode trademarks in cells and poetry in bacteria, as well as store snippets of music in the genetic code of micro-organisms.

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As well as studying and presenting new work, the Electronic Poetry Center is considering ways of storing e-poems.

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