Either way, it's clearly beyond the threshold for classification as an INES level seven event, although an order of magnitude lower than the 5.2 million TBq released from Chernobyl.

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"The utilisation of sex as a classification method is rational, since it is a straight forward way to ensure that birth records in the City of New York are uniform, " lawyers for the city wrote in a court filing.

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Either way you look at it, both the application of this law and the classification of business credit cards are flawed.

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