But the emotional pull of the area is apparent from the bunches of flowers lining the dry earth, and the golden plaques on stones, honouring individual victims.

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Nowhere is this more apparent than in the euro area.

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For years, the regional government has been planning redevelopment of the area, in an apparent effort to emulate the likes of Shanghai, which China transformed into a skyscraper metropolis during the economic boom of the 1990s.

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From 06:00 GMT it became apparent it was going to fall over a wider area and the warnings were extended.

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Correia and Gene Alvarez this week and considering the excellent work Constellation Research is doing in the area of Matrix Commerce, it is apparent that these five factors are quickly reshaping e-commerce.

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In truth many of the euro area's supposed strengths were always more apparent than real.

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There seems to have been a sequence of technical faults (reportedly, a problematic transformer, false alarms, failed signals and an apparent power surge) at about the same time in a small area of the power grid serving London.

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Dunne, who had already been booked, was lucky to remain on the pitch after hauling down Ramsey inside the area, and Van Persie, himself fortunate to escape punishment for an apparent elbow on Carlos Cuellar, made no mistake from the spot.

BBC: fa-cup

There's at least one area where Sony has kept its finger on the consumer's pulse, and it's most apparent when you tally up the Ion's dearth of truly offensive bloatware.

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