Twenty-one year old Suren Korene Hassan(ph) says that no one was brave enough to defy them.

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Ms. SUREN KORENE HASSAN (Student, Basra University): (Through Translator) All the students and teachers were afraid of them.

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Other studies, Suren says, back up the idea that nutritional deficiencies early in development can cause brain disorders.

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Suren Thiru, UK economics director at the BCC, said the challenge facing the UK was to develop a "long term economic legacy" post-2012.

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Pal Suren, the lead author of the Norwegian study, says that no adjustments for parental age or other factors seemed to make a big difference in the size of the effect.

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