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...Virologists spend a lot of time trying to predict which zoonotic disease will become the next pandemic in humans, but there seems to be far less concern about the spread across wild species....
...“China only procures sand and gravel locally for construction projects,” said Nasir Sohrabi, president of Gwadar’s Rural Community Development Council....
...Part of the reason is to decrease the risk of robbery....
...Packed into a gravel area a few hundred yards across are 12 large trucks with high-pressure pumps, a row of water tanks, and trailers carrying sand, to frack a group of wells for Statoil, the Norwegian oil...
...The test is taken more than 200,000 times a year by prospective postgraduate students and used by approximately 5,100 business school programmes around the world....
...In the early morning light, the western Australian coastline is washed in soft hues – the sand a pale gold, the waxy-leafed vegetation of the dunes a muted olive....
...“It gives them a lot of confidence,” she says. “A few girls in our gym are just there to keep fit and learn a bit of self-defence....
...And, most encouraging of all, electricity has returned to parts of town....
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