In that case, Rhode Island should become the model for other states.

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For its cheerleaders, such as Paul Krugman, an American Nobel laureate in economics, Iceland is a model for another north Atlantic island ruined by bad banks: Ireland.

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"SA Model, Cover Girl, Tropika Island of Treasure Celeb Contestant, Law Graduate, Child of God, " was how she had described herself on Twitter.

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They found that their model described the Easter microplate (just off Easter Island, in the Pacific) quite well.

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The program has been so successful that a second center on Long Island is in the works, and Zuch has been approached to replicate the model in other states.

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In the Cypriot banking crisis Germany was also one of the sharpest critics of the offshore model pursued by Cyprus, which attracted many rich Russians to the island and enabled them to avoid paying taxes at home.

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Mariette Himes Gomez, who designed the model at 515 East 72, wound up building a soffit for the kitchen and installing an island in the space to "not make the kitchen look like it was falling into the living room, " she said.

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