Official data released on August 4th showed a sharp rise in gasoline inventories last week, of 2.4m barrels to 210m barrels, the highest stock in a year and a half.

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They initially had high rates of ill health, emergency room claims, pharmacy claims, and hospital claims, but all showed a sharp drop, versus a steady rise among non-participants.

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But instead of observing a sharp and continuous rise in Tian Tian's oestrogen, the observations showed the levels were bobbing up and down.

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Latest census figures revealed last month showed China's population grew to 1.34 billion people by 2010, with a sharp rise in those over 60.

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D. graduate, Mann attained wealth, fame and adulation among global warming alarmists after assembling a proxy temperature reconstruction that he claimed showed global temperatures underwent a steady, roughly 1, 000-year decline followed by a sharp rise during the 20th century.

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