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    A Piece of St. Petersburg in Harlem She’s different‚ is all I muttered as I sat on the 1 train on a painfully humid afternoon. I had been sulking for no other reason than not having the courage to talk to her that day. I had only awkwardly half smiled. She was captivating‚ yet peculiar; she talked with a mild Russian accent‚ all the while incorporating the slang commonly used by those who live uptown and in the Bronx. I made her acquaintance at my job at the time‚ a large clothing store smack

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    directions if you are there. The next thing I want to talk about is the way we travel and how that has changed. No more than one hundred years if you wanted to get across the ocean or just travel across the country you would either get on a boat or on a train and it would take a really long time just to travel‚ but now you can simply get on a plane and before you know it you can be across the country. But planes have not always been as advanced as they are today. Before they didn’t have passenger planes

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    play with the trains whilst child L came up to me and told me child A was in the role play area crying. I went to comfort her. | I told child A to come with me to do some exciting activities‚ we did some cutting of shapes. | 9:53 | Whilst I was with child A‚ child M came up o me with the trains‚ and child B said “I’m flying‚ I’m flying” | I can see that child M has a good imagination which is very important. | 9:59 | “can me do one” – He wants to stop playing with the trains and do cutting

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    prepared to yield to an approaching train. 2. How long does it take an average train travelling 100 km/h‚ pulling approximately 8‚000 tonnes of freight‚ to STOP after initiating an emergency brake application? A) The length of a football field. B) 250 metres. C) 500 metres. D) Up to 2 kilometres. 3. When you see a train approaching‚ why is it hard to judge its speed and distance? A) Trains can change speeds suddenly. B) An optical illusion makes the train appear to be farther away and moving

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    spokes were invented more recently‚ allowing people to make lighter and faster vehicles • How do they impact society? The biggest thing that the wheel has brought to society is the production of easier and faster transportation. It has brought us the train‚ the car‚ and many other transportation devices. Its creation aided in the discovery of another important invention‚ the screw. It has also aided in producing societal devices such as wheelchairs and other forms of transportation. • How does society

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    dangerous way to travel. The advantages of travelling by rail are speed‚ comfort and pleasure combined. You sit comfortably in a train and watch a view of the whole countryside. If you are hungry‚ you can have a meal in a dining-car. You can also meet and talk to lots of people. Travelling by train has disadvantages too. It is quite uncomfortable to travel with trains that haven’t cabins‚ just sitting places. Another disadvantage is that all the time‚ during your trip‚ you will hear a noise‚ which

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    Prefixes Exercise 1: Put the Prefix into the sentences below. co anti bi post inter semi pre ex counter mono 1. The local trains are slow but the _________ -city trains are excellent. 2. Men who once served in the armed services are called _______- servicemen. 3. Both boys and girls go to that school. It’s ________-educational. 4. It was a _______ lateral agreement‚ signed by India and Pakistan. 5. The ________ espionage department has caught three foreign spies. 6. Houses in Britain are often

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    Every now and then i see one or the other organisation opposing the metro.  No doubt they entitled to their views‚ but do they ever see the benefits any metro brings to cities‚(especillay the crowded ones like bangalore‚ mumbai etc)  Let me quote a few points from PIB regarding the delhi metro‚ i am sure such benefits will accrue to bangalore also once the metro is complete „« Fuel cost saving: The annual saving on account of reduced fuel consumption will be Rs.180.89 crore in 2009‚ more than double

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    spending‚ but the cost of orphan drugs and other biologics are rising 20 percent to 25 percent a year(Managedcarearticle). The Orphan Drug Act of 1983‚ documents the ability to obtain

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    Sullivan and Fredric Lebow. The story starts with Lucy Eleanor Moderatz at her booth at the train station or her job. She would see Peter Callaghan every day and she soon fell in love with him. One day she saw Peter get pushed onto the train tracks‚ jumps onto the tracks‚ and saves Peter from being crushed by a train. Peter went into a coma because of the head injury he sustained from the fall onto the train tracks and when he was taken to the hospital‚ Lucy couldn’t see him because she wasn’t family

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