"It doesn't get easier, you don't think of them any less, you don't miss them any less, but you do get more used to feeling that way, " Mrs Ballard said.

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But know that if you do and you miss you're giving the match away.

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Miss a couple of hours and people begin to wonder where you are, but are still confident that perhaps you could be trapped in a meeting or out for the afternoon.

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But when you look at Miss Judy's classes year after year after year, then that difference that each child - what he gains or loses each year with Miss Judy -that becomes statistically significant and, in fact, very important.

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But the interim president, Ghazi al-Yawar, sheikh of a predominantly Sunni Arab tribe, says that attacking Fallujah's insurgents is like shooting at a fly that has landed on your horse's head: you'll miss the fly but kill your horse.

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Attacking Fallujah's insurgents is like shooting at a fly that has landed on your horse's head, says Mr Yawar: you will miss the fly but kill your horse.

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