According to the report, there have been eight separate patient safety incidents on the ward since January, two of those sparking "high-risk" investigations, linked to low staffing levels.

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Even in Belgium, which has had compulsory identity cards since 1919, social-security information is kept on a separate bit of plastic.

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But since 1995, that simple anatomy has given way to several separate backbones -- thousands of miles of extremely-high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable owned by the likes of Sprint, GTE, IBM, and MCI WorldCom, connecting major metropolitan areas all over the country.

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According to Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, the pope started thinking about writing the letter last summer after the publication of the Ryan report -- one of three separate reports on sexual and physical abuse by Irish clergy that has come out since 2005.

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Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has adopted three separate resolutions recognizing conflict-related sexual violence as a threat to international peace and security.

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