Engineers who have assessed the project to build deep underground storage facilities feel it would be a bigger construction challenge than that of the channel tunnel, with tunnelling between 200 and 1, 000 metres.

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In a letter to the council, it said the construction would "challenge the cathedral's hitherto unrivalled supremacy in the landscape" and "sever the current close relationship of the cathedral and city to the adjacent Fens".

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Other education programmes include the nationwide Metrobank Math Challenge, the national College Scholarship Programme and an educational grants programme to fund construction of school buildings, curriculum development, and teacher training, among others.

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One afternoon, Lauren's class was building cardboard and construction-paper models of New York landmarks, a lesson that leads up to the challenge of building 3-D models in the computer.

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