And scientists at the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Research Station, on Adelaide Island resorted to banging pots and pans, after discovering their base was "decidedly lacking in anything resembling an actual bell".

BBC: Mass bell-ringing heralds Olympics opening

Last year, says NCC executive director Luis Morales, a survey by the Social Weather Station found that Rizal has become a leading role model for boys. (Girls chose their mothers.) Previously, youths were only seen as interested in pop and movie stars.

CNN: Glancing Back

The theoretical part of the seminar on the measurement technology including the principle of a measurement survey, a plane-table method, a perpendicular survey, a traverse survey, a GPS survey, and using a total station will be conducted at the premises of the Institute of Fine Arts.

UNESCO: 7-8 November 2012, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The quake struck 90km (60 miles) south of the country's only nuclear power station in Bushehr, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says.

BBC: Deadly quake in south-west Iran's Bushehr province

Almost every newspaper and television station, it seems, is sponsoring a political survey.

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