Timbuktu was a thriving commercial hub and a center of Islamic scholarship in the 14th and 15th centuries, and it's home to three clay mosques that date back more than 700 years.

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One of the studies followed hundreds of mostly Latino mothers and children in California's Salinas Valley, a center of commercial agriculture.

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Subscriber growth has been supported by a "real breakthrough" in the commercial market, with businesses including Center Parcs holiday centres and military retailer NAAFI switching from rival feeds to ITV Digital.

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The first commercial tenant, a cafe, is slated to open at the civic center in 2012.

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The family owns a big stake as well in Suntec City, Singapore's new convention, exhibition and commercial center.

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Dr. Peter Martin, director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center in Tennessee, said that the "brain on drugs" commercial gives teens a perfect picture of what drugs can do to their brains.

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On a brilliant morning last October Dong Khoi Street, the premier commercial thoroughfare in Saigon, was closed for nearly two hours to celebrate the opening of Vincom Center A, a precisely, if infelicitously, named shopping center.

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