This was a small-scale study, but Prof Nicolson says the results are on a par with those achieved by the large-scale reading recovery scheme in the early 1990s.

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The tweets linked to pictures, including one of feet on a scale reading 214 pounds, and another one of Ai and an unidentified male peering into the camera.

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For example, the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, which killed 63 people, had the same Richter scale reading as the 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 100, 000 to 200, 000 in Haiti.

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It is important to note that I ranked each college based on its 75th percentile SAT scores for math and critical reading (1600 scale) to assess selectivity.

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Together Bush and his coalition would pass the biggest tax cut in the state's history, reform its tort-liability system and boost reading scores enough to give him bragging rights on a national scale.

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Other recent intra-national mergers of European schools, such as between Henley and the University of Reading in Britain, have not only had the benefit of economies of scale and complimentary areas of strength, but also of proximity.

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More than half of the 262 high school seniors who participated in the study were "excessively sleepy, " according to a commonly used scale that gauges how likely a person is to doze off during everyday activities such as reading, watching TV, or sitting in a traffic jam.

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