We also know, from studying the lessons of past recessions, that climbing out of any recession, much less a hole as deep as this one, takes some time.

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Instead of studying biotechnology together, they find time to take singing lessons.

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By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.

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