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Nobody knows what life forms may exist outside our own planet. The search for extra-terrestrial life in the universe took a step nearer to fruition with the discovery in June of what are believed to be traces of water on the surface of Mars. Life on our planet requires water and its presence on Mars may point towards t...
The Phoenix Mars Lander has provided proof that life once existed on Mars.
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id_4301
Non-PC. Political correctness has eroded our freedom of speech. In the UK, political correctness came to the fore in the 1980s when it sought to protect minority groups from offensive language, attitudes and discrimination as well as banish stereotypes. In recent times it has influenced language, ideas and behaviour to...
The author believes that equality and diversity within the NHS are largely within the scope of anti-discrimination laws.
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id_4302
Non-PC. Political correctness has eroded our freedom of speech. In the UK, political correctness came to the fore in the 1980s when it sought to protect minority groups from offensive language, attitudes and discrimination as well as banish stereotypes. In recent times it has influenced language, ideas and behaviour to...
NHS patients must declare their sexuality by ticking a box.
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id_4303
Non-PC. Political correctness has eroded our freedom of speech. In the UK, political correctness came to the fore in the 1980s when it sought to protect minority groups from offensive language, attitudes and discrimination as well as banish stereotypes. In recent times it has influenced language, ideas and behaviour to...
The nurse was suspended for breaching the NHS equality and diversity policy.
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id_4304
Non-PC. Political correctness has eroded our freedom of speech. In the UK, political correctness came to the fore in the 1980s when it sought to protect minority groups from offensive language, attitudes and discrimination as well as banish stereotypes. In recent times it has influenced language, ideas and behaviour to...
The author believes that political correctness is contrary to freedom of thought.
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id_4305
Nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. With the rise of male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the natural female instincts, the principles that originally constituted the God-idea gradually gave place to a Deity better ...
Masculine rule has always occurred.
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Nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. With the rise of male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the natural female instincts, the principles that originally constituted the God-idea gradually gave place to a Deity better ...
The author is religious.
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id_4307
Nuclear fission (in nuclear physics, simply fission) is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei (fission products) and usually some by-product particles. Hence, fission is a form of elemental transmutation. The by-products include free neutrons, photons (usually gamma rays), and...
Nuclear fusion is thought to be safer than fission.
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id_4308
Nuclear fission (in nuclear physics, simply fission) is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei (fission products) and usually some by-product particles. Hence, fission is a form of elemental transmutation. The by-products include free neutrons, photons (usually gamma rays), and...
Fission converts one element into another.
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id_4309
Nuclear fission (in nuclear physics, simply fission) is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei (fission products) and usually some by-product particles. Hence, fission is a form of elemental transmutation. The by-products include free neutrons, photons (usually gamma rays), and...
Fission is dangerous because it causes a chain reaction.
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id_4310
Nuclear fission (in nuclear physics, simply fission) is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei (fission products) and usually some by-product particles. Hence, fission is a form of elemental transmutation. The by-products include free neutrons, photons (usually gamma rays), and...
Alpha particles can be by-products of nuclear fission.
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id_4311
Nuclear fission (in nuclear physics, simply fission) is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei (fission products) and usually some by-product particles. Hence, fission is a form of elemental transmutation. The by-products include free neutrons, photons (usually gamma rays), and...
Fission takes place in both nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
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id_4312
Nuclear power is carbon free and new nuclear power plants do produce less radioactive waste than the older ones but the problem still exists, so building new nuclear power stations would address the long-term environmental problem of carbon emissions but only by exacerbating another problem. Critics complain of the vis...
Renewable power is carbon free.
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id_4313
Nuclear power is carbon free and new nuclear power plants do produce less radioactive waste than the older ones but the problem still exists, so building new nuclear power stations would address the long-term environmental problem of carbon emissions but only by exacerbating another problem. Critics complain of the vis...
Alternatives to nuclear that are carbon-free power sources have problems of their own.
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id_4314
Nuclear power is carbon free and new nuclear power plants do produce less radioactive waste than the older ones but the problem still exists, so building new nuclear power stations would address the long-term environmental problem of carbon emissions but only by exacerbating another problem. Critics complain of the vis...
A very good environmental case for nuclear power could be made if the problem of radioactive waste could be solved.
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id_4315
Numeracy : Can Animals Tell Numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease providing the ratio is big enough but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkeys a...
When assessing the number of eggs in their nest, coots take into account those of other birds.
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id_4316
Numeracy : Can Animals Tell Numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease providing the ratio is big enough but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkeys a...
Researchers have experimented by altering quantities of nectar or fruit available to certain wild animals.
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id_4317
Numeracy : Can Animals Tell Numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease providing the ratio is big enough but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkeys a...
The experiment with chicks suggests that some numerical ability exists in newborn animals.
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id_4318
Numeracy : Can Animals Tell Numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease providing the ratio is big enough but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkeys a...
The research involving young chicks took place over two separate days.
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id_4319
Numeracy : Can Animals Tell Numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease providing the ratio is big enough but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkeys a...
Jurgen Tautz trained the insects in his experiment to recognize the shapes of individual numbers.
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id_4320
Numeracy : Can Animals Tell Numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease providing the ratio is big enough but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkeys a...
Primates are better at identifying the larger of two numbers if one is much bigger than the other.
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id_4321
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkey...
Primates are better at identifying the larger of two numbers if one is much bigger than the other.
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id_4322
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkey...
When assessing the number of eggs in their nest, coots take into account those of other birds.
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id_4323
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkey...
Researchers have experimented by altering quantities of nectar or fruit available to certain wild animals.
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id_4324
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkey...
The experiment with chicks suggests that some numerical ability exists in newborn animals.
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id_4325
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkey...
The research involving young chicks took place over two separate days.
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id_4326
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers? Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability? In one experiment, rhesus monkey...
Jurgen Tautz trained the insects in his experiment to recognise the shapes of individual numbers.
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id_4327
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
The Tsimshian language contains both older and newer systems of counting.
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id_4328
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
Early peoples found it easier to count by using their fingers rather than a group of pebbles.
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id_4329
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
For the earliest tribes, the concept of sufficiency was more important than the concept of quantity.
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id_4330
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
In general, people in seventh-century Europe had poor counting ability.
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id_4331
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
The word thousand has Anglo-Saxon origins.
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id_4332
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
Indigenous Tasmanians used only four terms to indicate numbers of objects.
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id_4333
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
Some peoples with simple number systems used body language to prevent misunderstanding of expressions of number.
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id_4334
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
All cultures have been able to express large numbers clearly.
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id_4335
Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed thi...
In the Tsimshian language, the number for long objects and canoes is expressed with the same word.
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id_4336
Nushu A Secret Language It is sometimes said that men and women communicate in different languages. For hundreds of years in the Jiangyong County of Hunan Province, China, this was quite literally the case. Sometime between 400 and 1,000 years ago, women defied the patriarchal norms of the time that forbade them to rea...
The post-Revolution government did not want women to read or write in any language.
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id_4337
Nushu A Secret Language It is sometimes said that men and women communicate in different languages. For hundreds of years in the Jiangyong County of Hunan Province, China, this was quite literally the case. Sometime between 400 and 1,000 years ago, women defied the patriarchal norms of the time that forbade them to rea...
Nushu is now being openly taught
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id_4338
Nushu A Secret Language It is sometimes said that men and women communicate in different languages. For hundreds of years in the Jiangyong County of Hunan Province, China, this was quite literally the case. Sometime between 400 and 1,000 years ago, women defied the patriarchal norms of the time that forbade them to rea...
Women could be punished with the death penalty for using Nushu.
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id_4339
Nushu A Secret Language It is sometimes said that men and women communicate in different languages. For hundreds of years in the Jiangyong County of Hunan Province, China, this was quite literally the case. Sometime between 400 and 1,000 years ago, women defied the patriarchal norms of the time that forbade them to rea...
The customary way of learning Nushu has died out
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id_4340
Nushu A Secret Language It is sometimes said that men and women communicate in different languages. For hundreds of years in the Jiangyong County of Hunan Province, China, this was quite literally the case. Sometime between 400 and 1,000 years ago, women defied the patriarchal norms of the time that forbade them to rea...
There is a lot of money to be made out of public interest in Nushu.
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id_4341
Nushu A Secret Language It is sometimes said that men and women communicate in different languages. For hundreds of years in the Jiangyong County of Hunan Province, China, this was quite literally the case. Sometime between 400 and 1,000 years ago, women defied the patriarchal norms of the time that forbade them to rea...
At first, the Red Guard thought Nushu might be a tool for spies.
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id_4342
Nutmeg - a valuable spice. The nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, is a large evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia. Until the late 18th century, it only grew in one place in the world: a small group of islands in the Banda Sea, part of the Moluccas - or Spice Islands - in northeastern Indonesia. The tree is thickly bra...
The VOC was the world's first major trading company.
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id_4343
Nutmeg - a valuable spice. The nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, is a large evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia. Until the late 18th century, it only grew in one place in the world: a small group of islands in the Banda Sea, part of the Moluccas - or Spice Islands - in northeastern Indonesia. The tree is thickly bra...
In the Middle Ages, most Europeans knew where nutmeg was grown.
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id_4344
Nutmeg - a valuable spice. The nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, is a large evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia. Until the late 18th century, it only grew in one place in the world: a small group of islands in the Banda Sea, part of the Moluccas - or Spice Islands - in northeastern Indonesia. The tree is thickly bra...
Following the Treaty of Breda, the Dutch had control of all the islands where nutmeg grew.
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id_4345
Oat cereal has more fiber than corn cereal but less fiber than bran cereal. Corn cereal has more fiber than rice cereal but less fiber than wheat cereal.
Of the three kinds of cereal, rice cereal has the least amount of fiber.
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id_4346
Of three part-time employees, Mary Potter works longer hours than Fred Ruby, although Betty Simpson works longer hours than Mary Potter.
Betty Simpson Betty Simpson
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id_4347
Off-shoring has been adopted by banks and other financial organisations in the West since the 1980s, but it is only in recent years that it has become popular in other industry sectors as its financial benefits over more local outsourcing have become recognised. Evidence indicates that off-shore workers have a lower in...
In the West, off-shoring was the main method used for banking organisations out-sourcing their work in the 1980s.
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id_4348
Off-shoring has been adopted by banks and other financial organisations in the West since the 1980s, but it is only in recent years that it has become popular in other industry sectors as its financial benefits over more local outsourcing have become recognised. Evidence indicates that off-shore workers have a lower in...
Off-shoring has only been adopted in recent years.
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id_4349
Off-shoring has been adopted by banks and other financial organisations in the West since the 1989s, but it is only in recent years that it has become popular in other industry sectors as its financial benefits over more local outsourcing have become recognised. Evidence indicates that off-shore workers have a lower in...
Off-shoring has only been adopted in recent years.
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id_4350
Off-shoring has been adopted by banks and other financial organisations in the West since the 1989s, but it is only in recent years that it has become popular in other industry sectors as its financial benefits over more local outsourcing have become recognised. Evidence indicates that off-shore workers have a lower in...
In the west, off-shoring was the main method used for banking organisations out-sourcing their work in the 1989s.
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id_4351
Offenders posing as representatives of the local gas and electricity board had successfully targetted an | area of the town over the past week, by conning their way into peoples homes and stealing items once inside. A victim yesterday described their offender as a male aged approximately in his early forties, with dark...
Akram is clearly responsible for these offences.
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id_4352
Offenders posing as representatives of the local gas and electricity board had successfully targetted an | area of the town over the past week, by conning their way into peoples homes and stealing items once inside. A victim yesterday described their offender as a male aged approximately in his early forties, with dark...
Clark could fit the description given by the victim.
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id_4353
Offenders posing as representatives of the local gas and electricity board had successfully targetted an | area of the town over the past week, by conning their way into peoples homes and stealing items once inside. A victim yesterday described their offender as a male aged approximately in his early forties, with dark...
Akram and Barton were working together in the area over the past week.
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id_4354
Offenders posing as representatives of the local gas and electricity board had successfully targetted an | area of the town over the past week, by conning their way into peoples homes and stealing items once inside. A victim yesterday described their offender as a male aged approximately in his early forties, with dark...
The offender used a clipboard during each offence.
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id_4355
Offenders posing as representatives of the local gas and electricity board had successfully targetted an | area of the town over the past week, by conning their way into peoples homes and stealing items once inside. A victim yesterday described their offender as a male aged approximately in his early forties, with dark...
Akram cannot be a suspect, because of his age.
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id_4356
Officelink, an office equipment superstore, has grown by leaps and bounds since it opened in 1996. This success has been attributed to a combination of low prices, comprehensive stock and its location in the middle of a large and thriving business park. Until recently, the stock control procedures failed to keep up wit...
In the past, stock control was done manually.
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id_4357
Officelink, an office equipment superstore, has grown by leaps and bounds since it opened in 1996. This success has been attributed to a combination of low prices, comprehensive stock and its location in the middle of a large and thriving business park. Until recently, the stock control procedures failed to keep up wit...
Officelink will have to increase prices to cover the cost of the new stock control computer system.
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id_4358
Official statistics from countries around the European Union suggest that Britain has the second-highest living standard within the EU. Research suggests that a major reason for this is the service provided by the NHS. The European research body, Eurostat, compared the figures for Britain both with the services supplie...
Eurostat is backed by the European Commission.
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id_4359
Official statistics from countries around the European Union suggest that Britain has the second-highest living standard within the EU. Research suggests that a major reason for this is the service provided by the NHS. The European research body, Eurostat, compared the figures for Britain both with the services supplie...
The richest countries are Sweden and Norway.
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id_4360
Official statistics from countries around the European Union suggest that Britain has the second-highest living standard within the EU. Research suggests that a major reason for this is the service provided by the NHS. The European research body, Eurostat, compared the figures for Britain both with the services supplie...
The richest countries are Denmark and Norway.
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id_4361
Official statistics from countries around the European Union suggest that Britain has the second-highest living standard within the EU. Research suggests that a major reason for this is the service provided by the NHS. The European research body, Eurostat, compared the figures for Britain both with the services supplie...
Denmark is one of the richest countries in the EU
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id_4362
Official statistics suggest that only a third of drivers tax is spent on the roads. In 2010, figures suggest revealed that drivers spent twenty eight billion pounds in fuel taxes, yet, in the same year, only five billion was spent on local roads and a further four billion on national highways. In addition to fuel taxes...
Nine billion pounds tax, in total, was spent on local roads and national highways in 2010
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id_4363
Oil price instability justifies greater efforts to develop substitute fuels. But this should be a part of a two-pronged strategy, the other prong being to make existing fuels go further. Regrettably, however, the effort is still not there. Heat loss in homes and factories represents a substantial and avoidable waste. I...
Not enough is being done to make better use of fuels.
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id_4364
Oil price instability justifies greater efforts to develop substitute fuels. But this should be a part of a two-pronged strategy, the other prong being to make existing fuels go further. Regrettably, however, the effort is still not there. Heat loss in homes and factories represents a substantial and avoidable waste. I...
The opportunity to make existing fuels go further exists mainly in the domestic sector.
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id_4365
Oil price instability justifies greater efforts to develop substitute fuels. But this should be a part of a two-pronged strategy, the other prong being to make existing fuels go further. Regrettably, however, the effort is still not there. Heat loss in homes and factories represents a substantial and avoidable waste. I...
Oil price instability will lead to greater efforts to use existing fuel sources more efficiently.
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id_4366
Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear for the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices ...
New extraction techniques allow oil to be extracted at a price of between 80 and 90 cents a barrel.
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id_4367
Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear for the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices ...
It is reasonable to assume that greater capacity at times of high demand will help stabilize prices.
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id_4368
Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear for the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices ...
The passage states that the recent exploration has found new reserves.
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id_4369
Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear for the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices ...
It would be reasonable to infer from the passage that oil analysts were impressed by the findings of the exploration and research.
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id_4370
Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear for the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices ...
The record price for crude oil is $50 a barrel.
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id_4371
Oil sands are most commonly found in Venezuelas Orinoco Basin and Alberta, Canada. Modern technology has made the extraction of crude bitumen, or unconventional oil, from these oil sands much easier. The crude oil that is extracted from traditional oil wells is a free-flowing mixture of hydrocarbons, whereas oil sands ...
It is almost as expensive to extract conventional oil as oil sands.
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id_4372
Oil sands are most commonly found in Venezuelas Orinoco Basin and Alberta, Canada. Modern technology has made the extraction of crude bitumen, or unconventional oil, from these oil sands much easier. The crude oil that is extracted from traditional oil wells is a free-flowing mixture of hydrocarbons, whereas oil sands ...
Extracting bitumen from conventional oil generates four times the level of greenhouse gases than extracting from oil sands.
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id_4373
Oil sands are most commonly found in Venezuelas Orinoco Basin and Alberta, Canada. Modern technology has made the extraction of crude bitumen, or unconventional oil, from these oil sands much easier. The crude oil that is extracted from traditional oil wells is a free-flowing mixture of hydrocarbons, whereas oil sands ...
Oil sands offer a clean solution for meeting future energy needs.
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id_4374
Oil sands are most commonly found in Venezuelas Orinoco Basin and Alberta, Canada. Modern technology has made the extraction of crude bitumen, or unconventional oil, from these oil sands much easier. The crude oil that is extracted from traditional oil wells is a free-flowing mixture of hydrocarbons, whereas oil sands ...
Bitumen is a highly viscous form of petroleum that needs to be heated to flow.
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id_4375
Oil sands are most commonly found in Venezuelas Orinoco Basin and Alberta, Canada. Modern technology has made the extraction of crude bitumen, or unconventional oil, from these oil sands much easier. The crude oil that is extracted from traditional oil wells is a free-flowing mixture of hydrocarbons, whereas oil sands ...
Oil sands are only found in Alberta and the Orinoco Basin.
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id_4376
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole tha...
Chicks are sensitive to imprinting for up to 48 hours after hatching.
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id_4377
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole tha...
Imprinting stops young birds from getting separated from their mother.
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id_4378
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole tha...
Cormorants imprinted on fishermen are difficult to train.
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id_4379
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole tha...
Imprinting in birds is temporary.
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id_4380
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole tha...
Puppies can only imprint on other dogs and humans.
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id_4381
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water, catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole th...
Imprinting stops young birds from getting separated from their mother.
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id_4382
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water, catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole th...
Cormorants imprinted on fishermen are difficult to train.
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id_4383
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water, catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole th...
Imprinting in birds is temporary.
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id_4384
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water, catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole th...
Puppies can only imprint on other dogs and humans.
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id_4385
Old dogs and new tricks The first days of an animals life play a major part in shaping its future. Cormorant birds are used in China and Japan to catch fish in a traditional method of river fishing that dates back thousands of years. A cormorant dives under the water, catches a fish, and then clings to a bamboo pole th...
Chicks are sensitive to imprinting for up to 48 hours after hatching.
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id_4386
Ollie Jones and Ben Wilson, both aged 10, were reported missing at 20.00 after they failed to return home from a cycle ride to some nearby woods. The police have set up a search party for the two missing boys. The following facts are known: The woods are very dense and over 10 hectares in area. The two boys were admitt...
Ben had no brothers or sisters.
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id_4387
Ollie Jones and Ben Wilson, both aged 10, were reported missing at 20.00 after they failed to return home from a cycle ride to some nearby woods. The police have set up a search party for the two missing boys. The following facts are known: The woods are very dense and over 10 hectares in area. The two boys were admitt...
Ben had no problems at school or at home.
contradiction
id_4388
Ollie Jones and Ben Wilson, both aged 10, were reported missing at 20.00 after they failed to return home from a cycle ride to some nearby woods. The police have set up a search party for the two missing boys. The following facts are known: The woods are very dense and over 10 hectares in area. The two boys were admitt...
The older students had picked on Ollie in the woods.
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id_4389
Ollie Jones and Ben Wilson, both aged 10, were reported missing at 20.00 after they failed to return home from a cycle ride to some nearby woods. The police have set up a search party for the two missing boys. The following facts are known: The woods are very dense and over 10 hectares in area. The two boys were admitt...
The two boys had a cycle accident and were taken to hospital.
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id_4390
Ollie Jones and Ben Wilson, both aged 10, were reported missing at 20.00 after they failed to return home from a cycle ride to some nearby woods. The police have set up a search party for the two missing boys. The following facts are known: The woods are very dense and over 10 hectares in area. The two boys were admitt...
The two boys could have run away from home.
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id_4391
On 17th February 2013, at the annual Sports Conference conference, Government has been accused of "turning its back on school sport" and undermining the Olympic legacy six months after the Games. Shadow Sports Minister Clive Efford MP told the BBC: "What has gone on in school sport is absolutely disastrous. Education S...
Michael Gove has some control over sports in schools.
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id_4392
On 17th February 2013, at the annual Sports Conference conference, Government has been accused of "turning its back on school sport" and undermining the Olympic legacy six months after the Games. Shadow Sports Minister Clive Efford MP told the BBC: "What has gone on in school sport is absolutely disastrous. Education S...
The Olympic Games began in August 2012.
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id_4393
On 17th February 2013, at the annual Sports Conference conference, Government has been accused of "turning its back on school sport" and undermining the Olympic legacy six months after the Games. Shadow Sports Minister Clive Efford MP told the BBC: "What has gone on in school sport is absolutely disastrous. Education S...
Two hours of PE are no longer done at any UK schools
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id_4394
On 1st July 2007 the smoke-free law was introduced in England with the aim of protecting employees in their places of work, and the general public in enclosed public places, from the effects of secondhand smoking. These law changes mean that all public transport and work vehicles used by more than one person must be sm...
The smoke-free law had the publics welfare in mind.
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id_4395
On 1st July 2007 the smoke-free law was introduced in England with the aim of protecting employees in their places of work, and the general public in enclosed public places, from the effects of secondhand smoking. These law changes mean that all public transport and work vehicles used by more than one person must be sm...
It is no longer legal for smoking rooms to be provided for employees inside buildings.
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id_4396
On 1st July 2007 the smoke-free law was introduced in England with the aim of protecting employees in their places of work, and the general public in enclosed public places, from the effects of secondhand smoking. These law changes mean that all public transport and work vehicles used by more than one person must be sm...
Second hand smoking can cause lung cancer and other respiratory diseases.
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id_4397
On January 4, 1998, the city of Mitchelville recorded its lowest temperature since 1896. The temperature in Mitchelville on January 4 was 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Two days earlier, two inches of snow fell on the city, and this, too, was an 102-year-old record.
Temperatures were not recorded in Mitchelville prior to 1896.
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id_4398
On January 4, 1998, the city of Mitchelville recorded its lowest temperature since 1896. The temperature in Mitchelville on January 4 was 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Two days earlier, two inches of snow fell on the city, and this, too, was an 102-year-old record.
Mitchelville has mild winters and mild summers.
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id_4399
On January 4, 1998, the city of Mitchelville recorded its lowest temperature since 1896. The temperature in Mitchelville on January 4 was 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Two days earlier, two inches of snow fell on the city, and this, too, was an 102-year-old record.
Deep snow in Mitchelville is extremely rare.
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