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  • The worst damage occurred in Sichuan, which has experienced thousands of aftershocks over the past two weeks, but Sunday's -- which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at a magnitude-6.0 -- was the strongest since a magnitude-5.8 tremor shook the region a day after the initial quake.

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  • Thousands of people gathered at the town's Polo Ground for a two-minute silence.

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  • This year, eighth-graders won't find out whether they won a coveted spot in a top public high school until two days after the March 13 deadline for private-school tuition deposits, which can cost thousands of dollars.

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  • The micro-wind turbine can be arranged in a range of shapes and sizes, from two to thousands of square meters.

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  • After the DSM-III included MPD in 1980, thousands of spurious cases emerged in the next two decades, and special psychiatric clinics arose to treat them.

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  • It would inflame the Middle East and make tensions rise everywhere, including the two places where the U.S. has a huge stake and tens of thousands of troops -- Afghanistan and Iraq -- and it would put the moderate Arabs on the defense.

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  • Indeed, a Metropolitan Museum of Art imaging expert and two of the museum's photo conservators were on hand to provide advice, and two of the camera setups had been used to help the Atlanta-based King Center digitize hundreds of thousands of documents associated with Martin Luther King Jr.

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  • Kroll granted a temporary preliminary injunction in favor of Beverly Rogers and Ray Kaplan, two Boca Raton women who filed a lawsuit saying they and thousands like them were cheated out of their right to vote because the county's two-sided ballot was illegally confusing.

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