It is not so much that nothing was achieved - it is more that no one is quite certain what will sustain.

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One reason that certain foods carry so much local meaning is that they capture something essential about a region's flora and fauna.

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With a sample size that so far stands at just two, it is hard to know much for certain, although the new bug seems to cause rapid kidney failure in those it infects.

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And, you know, one of the things that I'm always battling - and I've only been on the national stage for a couple of years now - is that tendency to edit yourself so much that, at a certain point, you stop sounding like a regular person and you start taking on, you know, the persona of, you know, those bad politicians in TV movies...

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But while so much uncertainty surrounds Khan's future out of the ring, what is certain is his potential class in it.

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So it is with The Economist (normally a much more reliable magazine than this) and an interesting new method of producing certain metals.

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