Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

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A national team led by two doctors at the University of California, Davis,studied hospital records from thousands of children with head injuries.

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The two withdrawals followed problems with the nomination of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who also had failed to pay thousands of dollars in taxes.

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Over the past two decades thousands of Chinese government and state enterprise officials have fanned out throughout Africa for diplomatic recognition, educational and arts programs, FDI and business loans, giant construction projects, and business and trade deals.

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In Peru's Huallaga valley over the past two decades the authorities have helped thousands of farmers to replace 81, 000 hectares of coca with alternatives such as coffee, cacao, rubber and oil palm.

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Unbelievably, they drew 0-0 at Old Trafford, and despite losing the replay 2-0, the two games earned hundreds of thousands of pounds for the club.

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