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Over the past few months, something remarkable has happened in El Salvador: The homicide rate has abruptly and dramatically plummeted by 60 percent, thanks to a truce between the country’s two most powerful street gangs, Mara Salvatrucha (also known as “MS-13”) and Barrio 18. It is still unclear whether the Salvadoran ... |
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August 26, 2012: Matthew 19:16-26, Told for Younger Children
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Weil means because in English. It is pronounced wEIl, as in it rhymes with file. It is a conjunction, but it does something really weird. It sends the verb, which is usually the second word in a sentence, to the end of the sentence. Here is an example: Die Klasse ist toll, weil die ... |
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Título : Diel vertical distribution of fish larvae during the winter-mixing period in the Northwestern Mediterranean
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Reading accelearated C++: theres a discussion on whether int* i or int *i should be used. And that int* p, q is actually int (*p), q. So I suppose q is just an int? (not a pointer)? Then is it possible to declare a bunch of pointers?
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> > > layer around the plant more turbulent and slower-moving so water loss
> > > is less,
> > [snip: turbulence decreases boundary layers, and thus water los... |
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