Credit unions can often also be more flexible than banks in assessing borrowers for loans, and offer a human touch in handling your bank accounts.

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Lawyer Annabel Harris, of human rights charity Reprieve, which is now handling Maharaj's case, says the review petition is "crucially important".

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Crew member Sachin Sharma of India said workers had no problems with being thrust into the icky job of handling the red bags filled with human waste.

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He believes that the GeneEngine will be handling whole chromosomes--every human cell has 23 pairs of them, and each chromosome holds 50 million to almost 300 million letters of DNA--within two years.

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Unlike traditional automation, self-learning autonomic tools are able to understand and replicate complex decision making processes and behave in a similar way to the human cognitive process by constantly learning new ways of handling IT problems.

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Still, international human-rights groups have sharply criticised Turkey over its handling of the trial.

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The bottom layer has hundreds or thousands of tiny intersecting liquid-handling channels, each about the width of a human hair (100 microns).

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