Though it controls some 70% of the private education enjoyed by the young of the elite (as indeed it did, unofficially, before the reforms), religious education is still barred from public schools.

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Yet such policies indicate hostility to entrepreneurship and wealth creation and reflect the French Socialist Party's failure to recognise that the world has changed since 1981, when capital controls were in place, the European single market was incomplete, young workers were less mobile and there was no single currency.

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The new study, from University of Cambridge, scanned the brains of 22 young women with CD, who were between 14 and 20 years old, and compared them to controls without CD.

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Low-multiple companies cook the books, too, but young, hot companies face pressure to justify their lofty multiples and often have less-well-developed internal controls.

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"When you irradiate a young child's brain, say less than 5 years old, you hit the pituitary gland, which controls growth hormone production, " he said.

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