That means more than a million thirteen-year-olds can't do the simplest calculations needed to buy a candy bar or ride a bus.
One day, on a bumpy bus ride, Maseena fell in with a young Bermudian woman.
Now you can fly into Buenos Aires in the morning, catch a connecting flight to the airport at El Calafate, then ride a bus on a paved road to Chalten.
But we must also remember that the mission at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement was never simply about obtaining the right to sit at a lunch counter or ride on a bus.
He had hitched from Tucson days earlier, accepting a long, lucky ride on a band bus with a bluegrass group booked at a bar in Telluride.
He wears simple vestments, spurned a papal car following his election to ride win a bus with his cardinal electors, and has opted for a simple living style rather than taking up residence in the lavish papal apartments.
Happily, the pests don't usually hitch a ride on a bus to the Big Apple.
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For example, poor people stay in drought-hit villages when the city is just a bus ride away.
He is going to do Engineering, and even though it is only a bus ride away, I know that I will lose him when he goes.
Bad weather forced "Good Morning America" hosts Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, plus crew, to ride a bus for 10 hours from Austin to New Orleans in time for Tuesday's show.
Tampa Bay (6-5) might have been a bit weary following a long bus ride from Boston on Saturday after its game against the Bruins was postponed by the big Northeast snowstorm.
It was considered the ideal backdrop to a diplomatic initiative by Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who accepted the invitation of his Pakistani counterpart to take a bus ride to Lahore.
Dawn decided to appeal to her second choice school, Cheam High School, which is a bus ride away but the school Catherine most wanted to attend because many of her friends had a place.
The algorithm could be of great interest to Twitter, which could charge a premium for ads linked to popular topics, but it also represents a new approach to statistical analysis that could, in theory, apply to any quantity that varies over time: the duration of a bus ride, ticket sales for films, maybe even stock prices.
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Recognition may have taken a while, but Spencer - bemused at being recognised on a Kent park-and-ride bus recently - senses a shift in attitudes.
After a 45-minute bus ride from the city centre, the mid-sized tour of mostly Sydney locals begins with a photography lesson on Wattamolla beach, two and a half hours before sunset.
Once a month she takes a two-hour bus ride to see her children.
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"It was difficult circumstances and preparations, " Gannon said after a game played in searing heat and a three-hour bus ride to the stadium.
Then the plane was rerouted to San Jose, forcing Fleming and his fellow passengers to endure a traffic-snarled bus ride to San Francisco's airport, where they arrived four hours behind schedule.
An hour earlier, we had imagined hostile stares from some villagers as we walked the uphill road through town along the valley between sharply rising mountainsides a four-hour bus ride from the coast.
"Flooding, snow, high winds, avalanche risk, slips and rock falls can all occur at any time of the year, " says Christine Officer, program manager at the DOC office in Te Anau (a two-hour bus ride from Queenstown), which manages the Milford Track.
In an oft-told story, each morning his mother, Madaline, a nurse, would jump in the car and conveniently drive by a disabled neighbor as he walked to the bus just to give him a ride.
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They hailed a motorized rickshaw to a bus stop where she could catch a ride home.
He said that independents and Democrats would flock to his campaign for a general election coalition -- which, if it comes about, will give McCain many months to ride his campaign bus toward a possible presidency.
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After a few weeks of endurance, Tsao switched to the bus for a more dependable daily ride.
It's got a picture of London bus and the words 'Get a Free Ride to the UK' emblazoned across it.
But then Tracy misses her school bus and hitches a ride atop a garbage truck.
The gateway to the mountains is Lushoto, a valley market town reached by a painstakingly slow and bumpy bus ride from either Dar es Salaam (250km) or Arusha (170km).
Some 500 Buddhist monks and scholars from across South Asia and the West have gathered in the tiny village of Lumbini, a long day's bus ride from Kathmandu on the Indian border.
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