Without the experience in Russia, I don't know if I'd have had the guts to do it because it was just so outsize for my life experience.

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The campaigners also agreed that prison just makes life harder for women - so they are more likely to reoffend.

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Like many immigrants of that generation, they came here with nothing and struggled and saved just so their kids could have a chance for a better life.

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Micro-organisms on Earth are much more common in fresh water than acidic water, and so rather than Mars just having been a potential haven for some extreme forms of life, Curiosity's discovery means that Mars had -- and still preserves evidence of -- environments that were habitable for an enormous variety of micro-organisms that thrive on our own planet.

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So now when Facebook makes me long for someone else's fairy tale, I just remember that life is full of give and take, luck and circumstance, decisions carefully weighed, successes and struggles.

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