Following the U.S. and China, Argentina unveiled studies that promised they would move beyond independence and towards an export market within years.

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Ahead of its publication this morning, the Institute for Fiscal Studies assessment of the prospects for Scottish independence was being dismissed as coming from the "too poor, too stupid school of scaremongering".

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Even studies by ethanol fans concede that achieving energy independence via ethanol requires bullish assumptions.

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As we know, as soon as women were able to control reproduction, pursue studies, enter the job market and aspire to financial independence, motherhood stopped being an inevitable, self-evident step and became a choice instead.

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That's just one of the issues to which the Institute of Fiscal Studies intends to return over the next year or so of looking in depth at the prospects for Scottish independence.

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Theodore Beckles, a 19-year-old student at Independence High School, was fatally stabbed in September in a fight with a student from the High School for Environmental Studies, which shares the same building as Mr. Beckles's school on West 56th Street.

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