The twin pipelines that will deliver the oil and gas to the island's southern tip cross around 1, 000 rivers and streams, many of which are used by spawning salmon.

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The BGI began in 1999, when Dr Yang muscled his way into the human-genome project, cornering part of the tip of chromosome three (about 1% of the total human genome) as the Chinese contribution to that international project.

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The spokesman said floodwater had also been found in the underground tunnel that carries the no. 1 train to South Ferry at the tip of Manhattan, one of the low-lying stations about which officials had been most concerned because of the chance for flooding.

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The Dems would need only to tip Missouri, where incumbent Jim Talent clings to a 1.4% lead over Claire McCaskill.

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And if I'm not mistaken, and, Gene, you may have the figures on the tip of your fingers here -- but less than 1 percent of the overall funding indicated that there were any problems in terms of fraud or misallocation of resources, et cetera -- I mean, an extraordinarily low number.

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And more than half of the 1, 200 managers interviewed believes that government efforts to tip the balance between work and home lives away from the company grindstone will fail.

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Acting, in most cases, on tip-offs from members of groups who have managed to survive, the Borstar team has made over 1, 000 rescues this year, up from just below 300 in 1999.

ECONOMIST: Illegal immigration