It is an exciting time, but worrying as it is harder and harder for comics retailers and creators to make ends meet.
Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
The main reason why a small but worrying proportion of families and young people is falling behind is that schools are failing to give them the skills they need to get and hold a job.
And the comeback of this statue is one such symbolic but very worrying sign.
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But before worrying about the mote in a distant polluter's eye, it makes sense to consider the beam in thine own.
But more worrying still, is the consistent failure to achieve the other half of the same MDG goal -- that of halving the proportion of the population without access to basic sanitation.
America's great and good were also represented by Al Gore, fired up by the result of the presidential election and enthusing about the possibility of ending the use of fossil fuels in America, but still worrying that people are not taking global warming seriously enough.
Thomas should not be worrying about what I'm doing but he was worrying about everyone and everything and that to me is really the sole reason why he didn't perform.
The violence fell dramatically but there are worrying warnings of further unrest in the Delta, analysts say.
Welsh Conservative education spokesperson, Angela Burns AM, said Estyn's conclusions made for "worrying but sadly not surprising reading".
"We could see his talent and his passion, but I kept worrying about that left ear, " she said.
There are no prizes for worrying but that is what I do, ad nauseum, about every limb and organ.
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Their recovery following their drubbing at Perth was mighty impressive, but equally as worrying was the manner in which they subsided in that game.
But they are worrying enough to be worth following up, for if resistance did get out of hand the consequences could be very expensive indeed.
That would make such contributions not only worrying but illegal.
But the really worrying point of comparison for Mr Hastert is that he may be falling short in much the same way Mr Major did by failing to give his party a clear sense of direction.
But perhaps more worrying is that Italy's huge banks are likely to find it harder and more expensive to borrow - because banks are perceived to be only as safe or as risky as the governments that stand behind them to bail them out in a crisis.
But perhaps the most worrying thing for financial institutions holding mortgage-backed paper is not the subprime market itself, but the unnerving parallels with an even bigger one to which they are also exposed: leveraged loans to companies.
It is very worrying, but I'm confident they all know what they are doing.
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That's the best that can be said, but it's worrying to see the scale of this.
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But perhaps the most worrying new trend is that developing countries are retaliating with anti-dumping actions of their own.
But there are now worrying signs that Apple has lost the ability to build on the momentum of those launches.
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But perhaps the most worrying of all these findings is the suspected link between Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
"We're an incremental step closer to worrying, but it isn't a worry where we need to say there is a pandemic coming, " she said.
This is worrying, but most diplomats expect Sierra Leone's fragile peace to hold, thanks largely to the presence of 17, 500 United Nations blue helmets.
But there is a worrying group lurking in the home-schooling shadows.
"I understand that people will find these figures worrying, but I want people to understand that I don't think they're high - certainly not compared to other mental health trusts, " he said.
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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said the increase in 20mph casualties was "worrying" but represented small numbers compared with accidents on 30mph roads where 13, 168 people were seriously injured in 2010.
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