The number of young people not in education, training or work in England has fallen slightly since this time last year.

BBC: Young jobless 'Neets' total falls slightly

You can see how the numbers work in this piece I did on Warren Buffett last year when the tax blogosphere was obsessing about his percentages.

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According to the Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County, feature film work in Los Angeles is up 45 percent compared with this time last year.

CNN: graphic

If the Fed ends up coming to the rescue, and markets believe the proposed actions will work, shares in FedEx could behave as they did around this time last year.

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Recently, nature has provided an unexpected opportunity to put this grassroots science to work in Honduras, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch last year.

ECONOMIST: Research from the ground up

Readers may recall our piece early last year on the role of English chicken farmer Antony Fisher in instigating and inspiring this work, carried out today by a welter of organizations at the international, regional and national levels.

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In one early example of how this may work, Marco Marra, a researcher at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, last year sequenced the genes from a tumor that had spread from an 80-year-old patient's tongue to his lungs.

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The DUP's Jonathan Craig announced the statistic during an assembly debate where he said that this was "now far worse" than the one in ten who went straight into full-time teaching work last year.

BBC: Newly-graduated teachers

But Mr Einhorn has also been bearish on the yen since 2010, a position that started to work in the fourth quarter last year and has been one of the most successful hedge fund trades this year.

CNN: Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years