There are warnings that spring in this part of the southern hemisphere is likely to bring more hot weather, exacerbating a long drought.

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It would be difficult to imagine something less likely to spring from a child growing up in industrial Manchester in the 1950s than poetry of this kind.

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That radicalism that's growing in the camps and even among some Lebanese fueled in part by the war in Iraq, that is quite likely to spring up again.

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However, the commentator says that this time, his party, the Il Popolo della Liberta (PdL) or The People of Freedom, will be less likely to spring to his defence, as it is now beginning to see Mr Berlusconi's war against the judiciary as a lost cause.

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