It was equipped with a 3.5m mirror - the largest monolithic mirror ever flown - and three state-of-the-art instruments sensitive to long wavelengths of light, in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre range (55 to 672 microns).

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The islands are in fact the peaks of a sub-Atlantic mountain range that rises more than 4, 000 feet from the sea bed, forming sheer cliffs and often impassable terrain.

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In addition to providing technical advice on the full range of education sub-sectors out of its Kabul Office, UNESCO implements large-scale literacy programmes for civilians and police officers in Afghanistan, with Japanese funding.

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Drylands, which range from "dry sub-humid" to "hyper-arid" regions, make up more than 40 percent of the world's land surface and are home to two billion people.

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Google says its Mini customers range from appliance maker Sub-Zero to the Nasdaq stock market, public-sector patrons such as the city of Bloomington, Ill. and the University of Oklahoma.

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ETPs are now available for a wide range of equity asset classes, sub-classes, styles and sectors as well as fixed-income, commodity and foreign currency categories on a long and short basis.

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This produced a series of bubbles, including sub-prime in the U.S. and real estate bubbles in a range of European countries including the U.K., Spain and Ireland.

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