He faces stiff competition from 2007 world champion, Donald Thomas , of the Bahamas and Cyprus's Kyriakos Ioannou .

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But early exposure to Donald Barthelme and Thomas Pynchon, opened his eyes to the power of fiction to address what was so confusing in life.

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Donald Olson and Thomas Lytle of Southwest Texas State University have calculated the tidal forces exerted on the earth by the sun, the moon and the planets.

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