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Weigel, infamously, was forced to resign from the Washington Post for showing such virulent bias against conservatives as to shock even the Post.
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Also in Hong Kong, South China Morning Post reports a "shock move" by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to cut financial aid from June to some 132 recognised refugees living in Hong Kong.
BBC: China media: Egypt accident anger
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Wome stepped up to take the kick but his powerful shot hit the post, leaving thousands of Cameroonian fans in shock at the stadium.
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He looked skinny in his post-bypass body and still sported his trademark shock of white hair.
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Janet Novack writes in a recent blog post that Baby Boomers are in for a health shock and she quotes a recent study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that found there is a disconnect with how pre-retirees estimate their health in retirement, with only 13% predicting their health will decline but 39% of retirees report their health is actually worse in retirement.
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The first attendance at a post mortem examination is, to say the least, a shock to the system.
BBC: Sniffing out medicine
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As youngsters, these people were the shock troops during the golden period of Japan's post-war economic transformation.
ECONOMIST: Greying Japan
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Tom Henderson was awarded the OBE for his work, so there was shock in July when he was sacked from his chief executive post.
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Laws joked he would buy Ferguson - whose habit it is to treat visiting managers to a post-match tipple - to a crate of wine should Burnley manage a shock victory.
BBC: Brian Laws confident Burnley can beat Manchester United
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There is a recognition that, with more than 100 days to absorb the shock of the SNP majority, the re-start of politics-as-normal post-summer requires a clearer strategy.
BBC: What price the Union?
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From an economic perspective, the recent discoveries of abundant domestic shale oil and gas supplies may help us avoid the likelihood of an oil shock and buy us the breathing ground to plan for a more gradual transition to a more efficient post-fossil world.
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