Firstly, the value of these insights suggests that we will be happy to share our personal data but there is bound to be an element of suspicion.

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But one element of the current development drive is bound to leave its mark on the Mekong: dam-building.

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On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging of the pudding that gives "The House of Silk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element of the Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.

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