On the other hand, if this is all too close to home (my own 40th disappeared in the rear view mirror some time ago) we can take comfort in the fact that this research was carried out with civil servants and therefore may well not apply to human beings at all.

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This economic package, in my view, is as important as the security operation militarily itself, and it has to go hand in glove with it.

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