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| The largest organism on the planet is a mycelial mat, one cell wall thick. |
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| The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom - it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. |
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| We were involved with several experiments. |
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| I'm going to show you six, if I can, solutions for helping to save the world. |
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| Battelle Laboratories and I joined up in Bellingham, Washington. |
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| Economists at Citigroup, Mckinsey, Pricewaterhousecoopers, and elsewhere were predicting an era of broad and sustained growth from Asia to Africa. |
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| Third, floating exchange rates are flawed shock absorbers. |
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| It is naïve for emerging-market governments to expect major financial centers to adjust their policies in response to economic conditions elsewhere. |
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| 'But the bottom line is that the ideas protected by IP rights are the dynamo of growth for developed and developing countries alike. |
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| It is time for India's leaders to recognize the positive role that IP can play in fostering growth and improving citizens' wellbeing. |
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| Andy Haldane, one of the lieutenants Carney inherited at the BoE, has questioned the financial sector's economic contribution, pointing to 'its ability to both invigorate and incapacitate large parts of the non-financial economy. |
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| The reasons for this relationship are not easy to establish definitively, and the authors' conclusions are controversial. |
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| These companies find it harder to recruit skilled graduates when financial firms can pay higher salaries. |
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| But if finance continues to take a disproportionate number of the best and the brightest, there could be little British manufacturing left by 2050, and even fewer hi-tech firms than today. |
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| Physicists know that subatomic phenomena can manifest themselves as both particles and waves; |
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| America can adopt a new growth strategy – moving away from excess consumption toward a model based on saving and investing in people, infrastructure, and capacity. |
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| How will resources be allocated to care for the elderly, especially in slow-growing economies where existing public pension schemes and old-age health plans are patently unsustainable? |
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| A global carbon tax would mitigate climate risks while alleviating government debt burdens. |
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| But when innovation affects an automobile's quality, the task becomes far more difficult. |
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| Women who have completed secondary or tertiary education are more likely to enter and remain in the labor market than their less educated counterparts. |
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| Indeed, its three-year plan for economic innovation, announced in February, aims to raise the female employment rate to 62% by 2017, through the provision of affordable, high-quality childcare facilities and expanded paid parental leave, among other measures. |
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| The IMF is founded on the premise that it represents cooperation between all of the countries of the world. |
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| Next month, Ukraine's citizens will freely choose a new President – the best rebuke possible to Russian propaganda about our supposed failure to uphold democracy. |
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| And there are an estimated 200,000 cases of yellow fever annually, leading to 30,000 deaths worldwide. |
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| Only with pragmatic, fact-based Regulation can the world realize genetic engineering's full disease-fighting potential. |
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| He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. |
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| Balzac had difficulty adapting to the rote style of learning at the school. |
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| The narrator says: |
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| Near the end of his life Balzac was captivated by the idea of cutting 20,000 acres (81 Km2) of oak wood in Ukraine and transporting it for sale in France. |
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| 'When the idea struck, he raced to his sister's apartment and proclaimed: |
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| Although Balzac was a supporter of the crown, Balzac paints the counter-revolutionaries in a sympathetic light-even though they are the center of the book's most brutal scenes. |
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| Le Cousin Pons (1847) and La Cousine Bette (1848) tell the story of Les Parents Pauvres (The Poor Relations). |
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| Their correspondence reveals an intriguing balance of passion, propriety and patience; |
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| While he admired and drew inspiration from the Romantic style of Scottish novelist Walter Scott, Balzac sought to depict human existence through the use of particulars. |
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| Some critics consider Balzac's writing exemplary of naturalism - a more pessimistic and analytical form of realism, which seeks to explain human behavior as intrinsically linked with the environment. |
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| 'At the same time, the characters represent a particular range of social types: |
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| As part of the 19th-century evolution of the novel as a 'democratic literary form', Balzac wrote that 'books are written for everybody'. |
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| At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: |
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| 'Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. |
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| His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day. |
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| In 1599, a partnership of company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the River Thames, which they called the Globe. |
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| Records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments indicate that the company made him a wealthy man. |
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| By 1604, he had moved north of the river again, to an area north of St Paul's Cathedral with many fine houses. |
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| There he rented rooms from a French Huguenot named Christopher Mountjoy, a maker of ladies' wigs and other headgear. |
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| His last three plays were collaborations, probably with John Fletcher, who succeeded him as the house playwright for the King's Men. |
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| that is the question'. |
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| In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton recorded that Henry VIII 'was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony'. |
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| It contained 36 texts, including 18 printed for the first time. |
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| He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. |
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| These include two operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Otello and Falstaff, whose critical standing compares with that of the source plays. |
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| In Shakespeare's day, English grammar, spelling and pronunciation were less standardised than they are now, and his use of language helped shape modern English. |
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| In the 1950s, a wave of new critical approaches replaced modernism and paved the way for 'post-modern' studies of Shakespeare. |
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| At 18, he married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant. |
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| In the late 19th century, Edward Dowden classified four of the late comedies as romances, and though many scholars prefer to call them tragicomedies, his term is often used. |