While Greece dominates headlines with a 12.7% budget deficit and a 300 billion euro debt (as of early March 2010), the rest of the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain) wallow in high debt levels as well, triggering further alarm about the future of the European Union.

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Opening up the capital account would attract a lot of hot, speculative money, just as it did in the rest of Asia in the early 1990s.

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Since the Arctic as a whole is responding to climate change earlier and more acutely than the rest of the planet, we should think of it as an early warning system -- a proverbial canary in a coalmine.

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NATO's decision not to take the Kosovo issue to the council early on as a cynical ploy to claim rights of intervention for the West at the expense of the rest.

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In recent games, Anthony seemed to be looking for his shot often early in the game, so that he score and still get rest toward the end to avoid injuries as the playoffs drawing near.

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Japan, noted Tokyo Stock Exchange head Atsushi Saito in a speech in early July, has 3, 000 companies that have been around for more than 200 years, as many as the rest of the world combined.

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Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.

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