Chiara Coletti, a New York City Schools spokeswoman, said all five were good, computer-savvy students.

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Chiara, known as Kiki, was drawn to traditional crafts, while Seton, one year younger, was a budding visual artist.

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He then went on to recommend three U.S. attorneys for dismissal: Margaret Chiara of Michigan, Henry "Bud" Cummins of Arkansas and Carol Lam of California.

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What buoyancy there is in his life comes from an unflappable wife (Chiara Caselli) and their three daughters, and the sequences in and around their country house feel like a tranquil, not quite real respite from the pressures of work.

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In recent experiments carried out by Chiara Conti and other members of Dr Bensimon's team, molecular combing was used to identify a genetic defect responsible for cancer of the kidney, which is notoriously difficult to diagnose in its early (and therefore treatable) stages.

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With the help of Chiara Cirelli, who also works at the University of Wisconsin, Dr Tononi has created a mutant fruit fly that sleeps only two or three hours a night. (A normal fly sleeps between eight and 14 hours.) The mutation itself is in a gene for a nerve-cell protein of a type known as an ion channel.

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