Dr Armstrong also pointed towards the need for Scots to change their attitudes to alcohol.

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Dr Armstrong said that he sensed a "wider cultural change" across Scotland towards the issue of health with more and more Scots viewing it as "something to be enjoyed".

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Dr Lyle Armstrong, at Newcastle University, said that the study "without doubt" marked an advance for the field.

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Dr Lyle Armstrong, of the International Centre For Life at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, called the studies a "major development".

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Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Mac Armstrong, welcomed the conclusion that there was no proven scientific link between the MMR vaccine and autism or Crohn's disease on the basis of currently available evidence.

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Dr Rosi Armstrong, from the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology in Belfast, said that many cookies are very functional and useful but some can also build up a profile on people over time.

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"There are a lot of people still lying, " Willerton said, naming former Armstrong consultant Dr. Michele Ferrari, and Johan Bruyneel, the onetime director of Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team.

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Robert Luskin, Mr. Armstrong's attorney, said the cyclist denies using banned substances or receiving them from Dr. Ferrari.

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The Second Era, which saw Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts almost routinely venturing into space, was punctuated in 1969 when Neil Armstrong (who, in a sad irony, just passed at the age of 82) and Dr. Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon.

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