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...have plenty of skilled people here," says Moez Bakir, an engineering manager at Eurocast, a Tunisian subsidiary of Arizona-based firm Paradigm Precision Holdings. Eurocast, which is based outside Tunis, builds aircraft parts for GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce, paying its machine operators about $280 a month - a fraction of what equivalent workers would earn in Europe. Over 80% of Tunisia's exports head to Europe, where they will soon be exempt from customs duties, thanks to a free-trade agreement that takes effect in January. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Europeans soak up the sun on Tunisia's beaches...
...different set of immediate interests.” “If you had all of the funding coming from a single source, that would be,” he paused, “interesting.” “But each one of these things is a fraction of the total,” he said. Hogan estimated the gift would amount to about 10 percent of the current funding for Harvard’s research in energy policy, and he said Shell would not direct how the money would be spent. Shell’s press office...
...confusion is understandable. Only a tiny fraction of breast cancers diagnosed - less than 1% - occur in men. And because it happens so infrequently, much is still unknown about male breast cancer. "In women, we have studies based on hundreds of thousands of patients," says Dr. Larissa Korde, staff clinician at the National Cancer Institute's clinical genetics branch. For men, there are simply no studies of that scale. Though much can be extrapolated from research in women, Korde says, often "it's a little bit harder to make recommendations for men based on evidence...
...fault. Their fervor in France was the Cup's saving grace. Lined up before matches, imbibing their anthems, most looked ready and able to astonish with honed athleticism. Alas, rugby these days teases but seldom delivers. Its laws prevent even the most gifted players from showing more than a fraction of what they can do. No longer a showcase for sweeping back-line play, creativity or deft passing and handling, the game has become maddeningly disjointed and dull. And except for those fans who are satisfied with endless collisions and messy contests for the ball, everyone knows...
...incredible drawings of plants and animals” and “fine pencil marks.” Launched in late 2004, the Harvard-Google Project encompasses only the books that are not under copyright protection. Over a million books are affected by the project, though that is a fraction of the University’s holdings of over 15.8 million volumes. The Internet search firm is also collaborating with other university libraries in the project, including those at Princeton and Stanford Universities...