Rich reserves are increasingly being found in remote locations like Mongolia.

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Companies like Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel are down more than 30% over the last three months, with production still on hold because of the new restrictions.

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Despite progress in enrolling children in school in countries like the Mongolia, the Report shows that few are on track to meet the six Education for All goals set in 2000, and some, such as Albania, are lagging behind.

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The resulting desert is cold, like the Gobi in Mongolia.

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Some were awarded for having created an earlier version of a modern sport, like China's claim to soccer or Mongolia's claim of field hockey.

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And for years, much of the hair that people all around the world have used has been from Mongolia, Manchuria, Siberia, sometimes northern Poland, places like that, where the hair is very coarse.

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Since launching his company in 2002, Smith has trekked to places like Pingliang, China, 1, 000 miles from the coast and bordering a desert that stretches north into Mongolia.

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