As the global population increases, economies develop and natural gas supplies peak, the International Energy Agency predicts coal usage will increase globally, with the major Asian economies including China and India responsible for most of the increase.

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But now that he has abruptly become a figure of global significance, we accept if only to avoid confusion that we should fall into line with what has recently become standard usage in the international press, even if in Indonesia itself things are rather more complex.

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Even so, the International Olympic Committee is still vexed with the USATF for exonerating sprinter Jerome Young, who tested positive for steroid usage in 1999 but whom the USAFT allowed to compete in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

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