In a statement, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup said the increase in force level would provide 11 Light Brigade with the resources they need to "sustain and build on the hard-won achievements of 19 Light Brigade over the summer - achievements of which the entire nation can and should be proud".

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An upper-middle class residential area in the early 1900s, Lapa later fell on hard times and became a red-light district in the 1930s, its taverns and brothels the stomping ground for a broad swath of Rio society - artists, politicians, bohemians, intellectuals and malandros (con men).

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And then she designed a device that uses light to kill hard-to-reach cancer cells while leaving the healthy ones untouched.

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It offers the full protection of a hard-shell case with an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.

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To get Anderson localisation to operate in a random laser has not been easy, mainly because it is hard to find a substance that both acts as a high-gain medium and scatters light very strongly.

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