The puppet has a split body to allow for quick hand entry during the performances.

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Finally, the Chair turned to the matter of the scheduling of meetings during sessions of the Governing Bodies and pointed out that this was a simple matter of good coordination in order to avoid complaints from Delegations that are split between participation in the Governing Body sessions and other important meetings which should not, if at all possible, be scheduled in parallel.

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The numbers from the Proposition 8 trial add to a body of studies that are split on the fiscal significance of legalizing gay marriage.

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When I found her this morning, she was mid-molt, her old skin split across her back and her new body wiggling slowly out of it.

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That winter, I even bought a twenty-pound log splitter and would go out in the backyard every morning and split wood until the sweat started steaming from my body like those horses in that Alfred Stieglitz photograph.

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Andrew Smith of Cardiff University, who carried out the second study, said workers should try to avoid split-shifts and other schedule changes that put their body clocks out of kilter.

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Body language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second ability to recognize if a person or situation was benign or dangerous was often a matter of life or death.

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The body which monitors paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland said in its last report that the UDA remained split into two distinct groups - the mainstream UDA and the south east Antrim group.

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