In 2012, people are expected to return to their cookery books (and other resources) to get a return on their investment, get more out of their kitchen gadgets and get more creative with their cooking.

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Methinks a return to the baby books is in order.

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"Schools are increasingly being used as marketing venues by companies promoting their own brands in return for teaching resources, books, sports equipment or computers, " said a National Union of Teachers representative.

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Ms Wei's struggle to return a single student to his books is gritty and unglamorous and young Wei is persistent and poker-faced throughout.

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More students preferred to be loaned an iPad and purchase the corresponding e-books (and eventually return the iPad) than buy the iPad outright (and own it).

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In return for the labor, Fey lent him books on ecclesiastical art.

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By putting such low-cost assets on the books, Global Marine has generated average return on capital of 29.5% a year over the past five years, first among the Forbes Energy Extractors.

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On return visits he started collecting old cigar molds (he now owns 200) and old books, pamphlets and dissertations, going door to door in Havana to buy them up--until word spread of the crazy gringo and prices shot up.

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To help ease his return to the university, the Columbia faculty gave Stephanopoulos a survival kit, including a volume called "Great Books" by film critic David Denby.

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