Ms. Choudharie, 44, had taken half a day off from work so she could attend the rally with her 17-year-old daughter and some students.

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At 27, Watkins brings refreshing youth and innocence to a song sung from the perspective of a grizzled barge-worker: Only "a fruit jar full of iced tea" and "a half a day off with pay" provide relief to a lingering heat wave.

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They hadn't lost a set in Olympic competition until the other day, when they dropped one to Austria ("Pissed me off for a day and a half, " Walsh Jennings cracked later.).

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Over half the population lives off less than 2, 400 calories a day, compared with an average of a third for all of India.

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Then spend your last few days in the Orkney Islands, clustered not far off the mainland and reachable either via a half-day ferry or quick flight to Kirkwall.

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The other day after-school, after a tip-off, they spent a good half hour pawing over a listing for Scarlet Ninjini.

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Dr. KELLOGG: I sent an order off the second day for those materials and it was--a week and a half later found that it never went anyplace and was never signed off.

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