Margareta van den Bosch, head of design, says that this encourages customers to make frequent visits and snap up what they like immediately.

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According to Margareta Bergman, of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umea, however, this enhancement of growth is more than just the result of animal cutting and tearing.

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The UN Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlstrom, said the disaster showed that more must be done "to ensure early warning systems are effective in an age when climate change is intensifying the impact of typhoons".

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