About 150 members of the press had gathered to hear the result with council workers remarking it was the most attention a count in their area had ever drawn.

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Now, with the Internet, you can get an email that says what the pollen count is in your area every day.

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Still, he remembers one space offering a welcome caesura from the ormolu and swag: the Blue Room, which the Count used as his personal sitting area.

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Dr. Jeffrey Adelglass measures the pollen count for the Dallas, Texas, area.

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It has said that the concession could not count as "conflict diamonds" because the area was not controlled by rebels.

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Some experts say one way to tell if a person is a supertaster is to count the number of papillae in a small area after dying the tongue with food coloring, a test that can be done at home.

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The zone as a whole depends on exports much less than its individual countries do: the 43% of Germany's exports going to other members of the club count as domestic demand at the level of the euro area.

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At least 10 tornadoes touched down in the area overnight, according to a National Weather Service preliminary count.

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This area is activated when you talk to yourself inside your head or count silently, which is called subvocal speech.

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The population of the city already numbers more than half a million, and if you count outlying suburbs and independent cities, the total number of people in the metro area is fast approaching two million, more than double what it was just a decade ago.

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