The Report has developed a Deprivation and Marginalization in Education (DME) database drawing on a range of household surveys covering 80 countries and providing a more nuanced picture of education poverty (those with less than 4 years of education), extreme education poverty (those with less than 2 years of education) and those in the bottom 20 per cent (with the fewest years of education in a given society).

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Fear of living in a surveillance society increasingly seems laughable given the way that we live today.

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In fairness, Mr Karzai is still bound to a degree of conciliation, given the ethnic fractures in Afghan society which the poll largely confirmed.

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So while in India, our protagonist scrambles up a ladder of fantasy and make-believe to take on his tormentors as a slumdog millionaire, in America, our protagonist ascends a ladder given to him by his own society and its people--given to him as reward for a mutiny that was thought to ennoble not merely the protagonist and His Kind, but all of America.

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Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.

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However last week Newsnight showed a leaflet they were given by the pharmacy in 2010 to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

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In May 1987 he was given the Cyril Bennett Award by the Royal Television Society as a personal salute from the television profession, with judges describing him as a man who always dared and pushed out boundaries.

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Once caught, it was taken to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) vet in Edinburgh, where the male beaver was given a full check for diseases and a sample of DNA taken.

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