Yet, in parts of Iraq desperate and dangerous elements remain.

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In an interview with the BBC, Musharraf warned that a "disturbed environment" might bring in dangerous elements that could pose a risk to Pakistan's control over its nuclear arsenal.

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Ploughing, and some fertilisers can help farmers reduce plants' uptake of the dangerous elements, and binding agents can be added to animal feed to reduce their uptake from the gut, he added.

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When Kuhn looks at that 1964 model, in which Democrats painted the Republican presidential candidate as too dangerous for America, he sees elements that could recur today and others that couldn't.

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While the Fed was not forecasting a coming crisis in 2006, it was clearly aware of many of the elements that had caused the housing bubble to inflate to dangerous proportions.

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In a lengthy interview with the official Petra news agency, Mr Bakhit went on to accuse radical and "immature" elements in the Muslim Brotherhood of seeking to hijack the movement, and take it into dangerous territory.

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