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1. As the population ages and cardiovascular hazards like diabetes continue to rise, women are more at risk than ever. 2. The resumption of dialogue marks a political breakthrough as it opens the door to frequent consultations between the governments that have refused to recognize each other for decades. 3. As Christopher Cockered, inventor of the hovercraft, famously remarked, "But for the silly chaps we would still be living in the Stone Age." 4. English coexists with Welsh as it does in the four northern islands with Gaelic. 5. While there is no doubt that online tools have widened youth interest in politics, they can also have a constricting effect on candidates. Nowadays, politicians know that any move, word or expression can be recorded, packaged and linked around the world inminutes. 6. While I respect this position, for myself I find it unnecessary rigid. 7. It will be hard to meet the target while holding down energy prices. 8. The political impact of the party has been relatively slight. There are few elections where they made a difference.9. Where the original spelling of the word is vital to the story, I have kept it. 10. People who commit crimes are often described as being "wicked" or lacking morals, which ignores the fact that most of them commit crime when they are young and that most give up later. 11. Alan Bond was found guilty of improperly using his position to allow his private company to buy Edouard Manet's picture from Bond Corporation for $2,5 when its value was at least $12. 12. It was in the hope of regaining his children that he initiated psychotherapy, since his wife firmly stated she would never return to him unless he had psychiatric treatment. 13. Christine was sitting next to an elderly couple who'd been through an emergency landing before. They said, "If we survived that, I'm sure we can survive this," she recalls. 14. Reconciling these data points is difficult, if not impossible. 15. This dinner service cost 300 pounds if it cost a penny.

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1. Reading endures a reputation as a dormitory for commuters. In fact, this town finds itself at the centre of the region's booming service economy. 2. Those who today launch the Parents against Tobacco campaign, supported by 50 national organizations and morethan 150 MPs, believe we can meet that challenge. 3. Last Thursday,when the first races in the Cup began he crewed with one of the challengers while his wife cheered him on from a pleasure boat. 4. Fundamentalism generally emerges out of cultures, which have remained undisturbedfor many generations and then are challenged or disturbed. 5. The two countries were expected to confirm the breakthrough today after three days of discussion, ending a five-month freeze in contact. 6. Forces such as xenophobic passions, economic grievances, and transnational ethnic solidarity can make policy making far more complex and less predictable. 7. Over the years she has raised the profile of her small country and increased her own popularity. 8. I'm worried about consumerism, the focus on buying things that by any survival standard you don't need, but which American advertising culture promotes like mad. 9. You will receive a course of antibiotics. Then, if this doesn't work, more aggressive measures will be tried. 10. This change in the role of the church is highlightedin a new collected work on religious conversion. 11. Did Mr. Riddletell you anything, which suggested that he was on particularly bad terms with anybody? 12. There were no houses in sight. The sea on the one side and steeply rising ground on the other had so far discouraged developers. 13. Supporters of the measure said it would stop the too-frequent occurrence of criminals getting off on technicalities, as in cases in which evidence against them was ruled inadmissible because it was obtained with a faulty warrant. 14. A studyof 200 magistrates showed that, while there was no deliberate gender discrimination, many, particularly male magistrates, were more likely to see female offenders as troubled, rather than troublesome.

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Catwalk queen Naomi Campbell launched her first novel Swan ata glittering party thrown by publishers Heinemann. Her mother Valerie and best friend Kate Moss were there to celebrate her success. Swan is the story of a young model's rise to fame and fortune. Thebook was ghost-written by a professional author with Naomi providing material and ideas in the shape of interviews and tapes.

The girl from Steatham, South London, who rose from obscurity to become one of the world's highest-paid models, is also due to launch her first record, Love and Tears. Even so, she declined to singat the book launch.

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I had a fairy conventional upbringing and, although I was at grammar school, I drifted into street life. In some respects I think it was the consequence of having a workaholic father who exercised no supervision. While I did not respect his authority, I didn't dislike him. My feelings were neutral, and he had no influence on me. But I was brought up in the East End and there was a criminal elementon the streets and it was easy to drift into crime.

I think now that fathers need to work not so much at talking with their sons and trying to understand their problems, but reclaiming the authority that well-intentioned but misguided theories on raising children have undermined.

This is nothing to do with returning to Victorian values, it is respecting the reality of what has always been and always will be the nature of the parent-child relationship.

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We must recognize that it is more cost-effective to anticipate and prevent international problems than to try to solve them once they occur. Often the UN comes under pressure to act only when the root causes of a crisis have had time to fester and wreak their havoc. It is often not until conflicts have escalated enough to dominate the evening news that countries are seriously ready to provide funds, people, peacekeepers and humanitarian assistance.We need to devote more time and resources to preventive action.

We need multilateral efforts that can contain conflict, anticipateproblems and alleviate humanitarian crises in time. If we don't, we may face outbreaks of hostility, and the disintegration of states, with the consequent migration of millions of people. The international billfor restoring peace and providing humanitarian aid will escalate ascrises worsen.