But it is only recently that the issue has moved to the centre of educational debate.
The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says unlike India, where there has been a huge public outcry recently over the issue of rape, sexual offences in South Africa often go largely unnoticed.
Barry Ritholtz, a market researcher and columnist for The Washington Post, recently tackled the complexity issue at length.
"This is why back in 1997, we had to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan when the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee moved in next door, and why, 13 years later, the Treasury Department caught the same group in cahoots with Hezbollah, " said Rubin, who recently wrote about the issue for Commentary magazine.
The most recent public acknowledgement of the issue came recently when the Pentagon created a new medal for remote warfare personnel.
Economist Martin Feldstein, a former Reagan administration official who is said to be advising the White House on the issue, recently dismissed the idea of letting people collect unemployment benefits for a longer period.
The Los Angeles City Council recently decided to study the issue of transferring the airport back to Ontario, though the outcome remains unclear.
Until very recently, the whole issue was dismissed by some as the fantasy of small-company chief executives who were trying to pin the blame for their management failures on mythical market forces.
There was a great deal of controversy in the Islamic world on this issue as recently as the 1980s, with some prominent Islamic scholars claiming that there was in fact no complete prohibition of interest, only a prohibition of usury, or excessive, unfair interest.
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Indeed, Marvel recently announced that the first issue of a new series called "FF, " subtitled "A Beginning, " will hit stores in March.
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These problems have naturally led to speculation that the SNB might be tempted to take action once again, especially as Thomas Jordan, its vice-president, recently expressed concern on the issue.
In the past, researchers have flip-flopped on the issue, so they recently combined some of the best data - from 2.7 million women in 38 separate studies - to look for solid evidence.
But the country's recently elected President Dilma Rousseff has made the issue one of her big social policy reforms.
Long late to the game, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued an alert on the custody issue.
The government recently set up the Davies Commission looking at this issue and it won't report back until after the next general election in 2015.
He recently tangled with Kelly on the issue during a public safety hearing.
The issue was recently summarized by two scholars, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, in an important book on the subject.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, recently ignited a debate on the issue of shared sacrifice when he promised to introduce legislation that would reinstate the draft.
The country's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, recently tried to put some figures on the issue: in the best it could do for a survey, 30% of displaced people said they had fled from from guerrillas, 35% blamed paramilitary units and 15% claimed the army had forced them to move.
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph have both been giving the issue a lot of coverage recently after families have come forward saying their loved ones were placed on the pathway without their knowledge.
It was great to see one of our posts on the health care issue recently rack up 61, 000 Facebook shares.
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In 2002, after losing repeatedly in court on the issue (most recently in a case involving Sutherland Lumber-Southwest ) the IRS conceded that companies could deduct their full costs.
Sociologist Dr Richard Hoskins, of Kings College London, recently returned from doing research on the issue in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he found thousands of children were believed to be possessed.
The California Legislature recently approved a bill on this issue and other jurisdictions are trying to sort out whether a warrant is required under the Fourth Amendment and various state laws.
Hutton said the list was created in 2006 but may have resurfaced because the issue of rape on campus had been in the news recently in Colorado.
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Not that the classically good-looking Patrick, who recently posed for a spread in the latest Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, doesn't have her share of male fans.
Ms Hart explained that the evidence to date is anecdotal and that she recently met with the banking sector in London to raise the issue.
The BBC's Afghanistan correspondent, Kate Clark, says that the behaviour of the Taleban's religious police is also an issue as they have recently arrested several Afghans working for the UN and raided two NGO clinics and a hospital.
The NHS Confederation recently looked at this issue, concluding there needed to be a radical rethink.
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