According to the OECD, the UK is second only to the US as a destination for tertiary students studying abroad (as of 2008, 10% of all students studying in foreign countries were enrolled in UK institutions of higher learning).

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Pandora, which now sees more than 75% of total listening taking place on mobile and other connected devices, also holds a leadership position in the mobile advertising market, where it is second only to Google in US mobile advertising revenue.

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According to internet analysis firm Comscore, WLM still had more than double the number of Skype's instant messenger facility at the start of this year in the US, and was second only in popularity to Yahoo Messenger.

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Mr Erdogan is only the second leader of a country neighbouring Iraq to visit the country since the US-led invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein in 2003.

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Second, since dividends and stock buybacks can only be done with US based cash one needs to understand what those numbers are.

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And second, given the US policy trajectory, it is again obvious that the only one Israel can rely on to defend its interests - against Iran and the Palestinians alike - is Israel.

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But this is little consolation to the employers who must to pay their payroll taxes a second time, or to all of us who work our entire careers paying into the Social Security trust fund only to have it compromised by such schemes.

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The locals told us they thought we were only the third outsiders to have seen the water, and the second since Greene.

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