• Contrary to images of "going back to the Stone Age, " this form of energy efficiency actually increases the levels of illumination (and thus literacy), while trimming greenhouse gas emissions, indoor air pollution and energy bills that mire the poor in poverty.

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  • In the cottage downstairs there was only one room, with a kitchen at one end and a sitting room at the other, a flagged floor and a wood fire smoldering in a wide stone hearth, one wall stripped back to the naked stone.

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  • At first, employers were wary, presuming that her consulting business was failing or that she just wanted to use a job as a stepping stone to head back to her own business.

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  • Deep into the autumn, every package or can I open takes me back to conversations around the cookhouse's huge stone fireplace, to wind rustling through alders, and sun-spangled blue-green water, to the promise of adventure every morning.

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  • When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up to the top carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.

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  • If you must cast your summer and back-to-school retail strategy in stone, then make sure you also have a blank slate in your back pocket.

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  • The Farmhouse in Morzine is an evocative stone building dating back to 1771.

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  • The shape of the stone, likely dating back to the later 16th century, is a product of "diamond-cutting in its infancy, " he says.

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  • Zhumbaktas stone is covered in graffiti, dating back to 1905.

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  • Lamarck stands there in stone, like King Canute trying to roll back the tide, the tide, in this case, of an Anglo-Saxon version of events.

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  • His still delicate heart came to a stop, as if suddenly cast in stone, only to shatter into pieces when it came charging back.

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  • The large settlement, dating back to 2600-2500 BC, was discovered under earthworks 3km (2 miles) from the stone circle.

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  • Benny returned to Tom's office ten minutes later with back copies of Car and Driver, Rolling Stone, Guns and Ammo.

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  • Stone implements dating back as far as 45, 000 years may have been used to grind cereal grains, but there is no way to know for sure, since no associated plant remains survive.

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  • "Seriously, I hope that you're not disappointed that there won't be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met, " she continued.

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  • The first recycled crustacean: only one claw is taken from a stone crab - the rest is tossed back in the sea (the claw regrows in 12 to 18 months, and crabs plucked again are called "retreads").

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  • It has to allocate billions of dollars, and set the budget in stone so that no future CEO can back away.

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  • Mr Stone said because the same commodities can go round and round from importer to export broker and back again, the scam is known as a carousel fraud.

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