At the regional level, UNESCO Rabat Office supported a regional study in 2009, developing benchmarking for Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, and comparing the status in the region to internationally-recognized FOI principles.

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The research, entitled Steroid and Prescription Medicine - Abuses in the Recreational Gym user - a regional study, questioned 210 people at 100 heaving lifting gyms in the former Mid Glamorgan county area in 2005.

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Poverty is a key factor in the regional disparities seen in the study, says Mira Katz, Ph.

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In a cover letter, NMFS regional administrator John Bullard cautioned that the study applies only to the way the Indian Point reactors currently operate, using the screens to block fish from being drawn into the plant with the millions of gallons of river water used for cooling.

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"It's a critical piece of infrastructure for the region and also for the Northeast, " said Rich Barone, director of transportation programs for the Regional Plan Association, which is preparing a study of capital needs along the rail corridor.

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Data provided over just the last few years by the Grace satellite mission - used in this study - is giving researchers a closer view of regional variations across the territory.

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As I began to study U.S. internal migration patterns and regional economic development for Life 2.0, I learned that some carefully reasoned books had appeared during the last 15 years that had predicted just such an out-migration from cities to smaller cities and towns.

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That view is supported by Dr. Remy Coeytaux of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Dr. Jongbae of the Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

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