Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

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He made hundreds of different cut-outs, like "Man Riding a Donkey" or "Fat Man in a Bathing Suit" and started a mail-order business selling these caricatures, which provided most of his income later in life.

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The collection -- which numbers more than 100 pieces and is the largest the gallery has ever commissioned -- is displayed in several styles, including cinematic vignettes, life-size cut outs and straight head shots.

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Such clear-cut results are an improvement on the more subjective read-outs from microscopy, and are welcomed not just by health workers in poor countries, but also by the American army, which has put Optimal through its clinical paces in such malaria-ridden places as Peru and Thailand.

ECONOMIST: A poor diagnosis

Most games at Stradey fail to fill the ground to full capacity but matches in the Heineken European Cup are often sell-outs so a crowd cut would hit the club in the pocket.

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Pepper cut outs that came inside, there was the cut-out mustache, the stripes and badges of the Sgt.

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Earlier, in October, Zynga cut full-year earnings estimates on weak game performance and delays in roll-outs of new games.

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The hold-outs have been offered a new deal under which their pay would not be cut.

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That cut no ice with voters, who reminded the governor that in one of his campaign mail-outs he had promised to veto legislative pay rises.

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