For example, a great deal of foreign money and effort has been poured into sorting out the region's water supplies over the past decade without much to show for it.

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In the meantime, U.N. officials around the region are sorting through thousands more applications, says Arafat Jamal.

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Now Toyota sends finished vehicles to sorting docks where they can be grouped by region.

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She started sorting through hundreds of genes in that DNA region to find the one responsible.

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