The stock-market study session attended by Mr. Okutomi in the Tokyo coffee shop was led by 28-year-old Ryo Takebe.

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Yuki Okutomi woke up early on a recent Sunday to attend a 9 a.m. stock study session at a coffee shop in Tokyo.

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He and his cohorts, for the most part very young, affluent, and privileged, also believe all of our doings should be visible to everyone, with a fervor redolent of a late-night study session.

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The current President Bush met with the Iraq Study Group yesterday and said it was a good session.

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In the study, participants had a one-on-one session, in which they discussed diet and exercise strategies, with a dietitian, and then were on their own.

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One night in March, Gonzaga invited me to observe a session that was part of a five-year longitudinal study he is conducting of three hundred and one married couples.

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Helen Parise, a Boston University statistician, argued at a session at the ACC meeting that because of the way that study was designed, it managed to show both that the valve was non-inferior and statistically inferior.

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Of course, when class is out of session, students are expected to keep in contact, work on group projects and study together.

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