And some of the graves were marked by nothing more than gray, worn down rocks that poked up in a semi-circle like neglected, decaying teeth.

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An even bolder option would be to encourage private providers like the Circle health-care group, which took over the failing Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridge this year, or try to attract outsiders like Helios, a German company which specialises in improving badly managed health-care facilities, to compete for control of the weaker English hospital trusts.

ECONOMIST: Hospital takeovers

So I started writing more, I built my website inch by inch, row by row, I connected with like-minded people, I expanded my circle of contacts and my mind.

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On a circle runway, one by one the models walked in trance-like state in sepia-toned lighting showing clothes that ranged from pajama loungewear to mannish jackets to knits to long fluid gowns.

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He had some formal education, including a course in literature at New York University, but like many in his circle, he was mostly self-taught.

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Despite the fact that Silent Circle submits their code for several third-party audits, releasing an app like this one prior to source code release is bound to raise some questions.

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Like the yin-yang symbol, each half of the circle embraces some of its opposite.

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Most stars also look like that when viewed in infra-red light, but for Zeta Lep the circle is bigger than expected.

ECONOMIST: Planetary formation

It was almost like a hip-hop heaven sort of moment for me and really a full circle, because hip-hop is so powerful and so strong in Senegal.

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