"If they didn't know the ICRC was bringing food in here, all of them would be ready to leave, " says Dr Noorahmad, head of the local council.

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The plane, Solar Impulse, is expected to be ready to leave from the San Francisco Bay Area on May 1, although the actual departure will depend on the weather, the plane's Swiss creators said at a news conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

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Employees must be ready and willing to leave their comfort zones and take on the challenges that every new day brings.

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This achievement gap has not been closed by the time youngsters are ready to leave secondary schools - with August-born teenagers 20% more likely to be in vocational rather than academic study after school.

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That would leave 2012 open as a way for them to be the center of attention, but are they ready yet?

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