Mr Adams said he also stressed to the Northern Ireland secretary that the "catalogue of sectarian violence" being directed at nationalist interface areas like Short Strand were unacceptable.

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Mold in homes hasn't been tracked historically, but certain building practices like making homes more airtight, installing air-conditioning units and using materials like drywall and oriented strand board, an engineered wood product have made homes more conducive to mold growth than they were in the past, says Jeffrey May, principal scientist at May Indoor Air Investigations based in Tyngsborough, Mass.

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Speaking in the Irish parliament, Mr Adams, who represents Louth, said he would like Mr Gilmore to meet with residents in the Short Strand and "the adjacent loyalist areas".

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Farther east, a different strand of far-right thinking dominates in countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, he said.

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Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.

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