One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
Curnow has also extensively covered the career of Oscar Pistorius, often giving audiences rare access to the Olympian athlete and his family.
When those journalists are capable of weaving what they saw, heard, smelled and felt into compelling narratives, their books often achieve a rare momentum and power.
Among them teenage pregnancies are rare and often followed by marriage, sometimes at the point of a metaphorical shotgun.
The visitors contracted hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, a rare but often fatal lung disease.
With both sides having plenty to play for the opening exchanges were remarkably tame, anguished cries from the players were often audible on the rare occasions when West Ham's vociferous 1, 500 travelling contingent were not making themselves heard.
This state of affairs often leaves those suffering from rare diseases with few treatment options.
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On Wall Street such universal gloom is rare, and often turns out to be a bullish signal.
The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that vitamin E even appeared to raise the risk of bleeding strokes, which, while rare, are often the most deadly.
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But these auctions were relatively rare and governments often asked that the spectrum be put to a specific use, such as serving rural areas, rather than just to lighten the load on the busiest parts of a network.
Rare earth minerals are often mixed with radioactive elements, and processing creates low-level radioactive waste.
Dr. House makes a brilliant diagnosis, then single-handedly intervenes to save the patient, often shooing away bureaucrats and the rare nurses haplessly getting in his way.
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While you can do this on rare occasions, more often than not the game throws you into enormous firefights and Croft ends up having just as much combat prowess as Master Chief or Marcus Fenix.
This is because the cause of a rare form of cancer often can be narrowed down to a single gene, providing a clear target, and because few other effective remedies exist, so that the promise of a new drug can be instantly visible.
When it arrived in America it was detected within months thanks to the vigilance of the country's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in noticing clusters of a previously rare skin cancer that is often a symptom of immune-system collapse.
The rare black-faced impala is often viewed here too, as are herds of Gemsbok, wildebeest, zebra, giraffe and rhino.
But the brief period of reflection beside the Pope's body as it lay in state in April 2004 was a rare moment of calm in the often turbulent career of the primate, who has previously been dubbed in the press the "Cardinal of Controversy".
The 43-year-old fund manager is a rare species in Hong Kong's often-turbulent financial world.
Doctors often overlook the signs because it's so rare and symptoms can be as mild as headaches.
Rare though they are, mass shootings often strike at schools, malls, churches, theaters -- places we all go in places we all live.
But for most of my lifetime, people outside these regions had to suffer with inferior, often insufferable imitations of real barbecue (with some rare exceptions).
While transformations into homes are rare, the architectural preservation groups that often act as brokers favor anyone (including home buyers and residential developers) willing to preserve historical detail.
Even in women's tennis, a sport so often dominated by one superior star, it's rare for a player to win all four Grand Slam titles in her career.
Only a few are chosen to be accepted into this program, and often, doctors are looking not just for patients with rare problems, but also, a diagnosis that could advance science.
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"It's not often that people get to deal with a very, very rare diamond, " Hughes said.
While Mr. Fleming-Wood often encourages his colleagues to run with him, it is rare that they can keep up.
As circular as it sounds, rare events are rare primarily because they don't occur very often, and not because of any preventive security measures.
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