The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.

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Block wrote a research paper comparing a sample size of 1, 000.

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"It's just having an awareness of bits of paper floating around, " he tells NPR's Melissa Block.

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But Mr Sarkozy said he could not understand why the paper's journalists had gone on strike several times to try to block the recent takeover of their publication by his friend Bernard Arnault, France's richest man.

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What the Treasury seem to be saying here is that they're uneasy about handing over borrowing powers to the Welsh Government when their only substantial means of paying it back is the income stream from the block grant - they'd like them to have the paper round as well as the pocket money.

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Each enormous block is perfectly cut, polished smooth and fitted so tight not a sheet of paper would slip between them.

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You bounce down the block, late for work, holding a coffee, glancing at the headlines on your paper and dodging the other pedestrians who are walking at a maddeningly measured pace.

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Finally, when the block is ready to be used, it is covered with ink and pressed by hand onto paper to print the final image.

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