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The relative trickle of migrants - 15 to 20 in each location on a given night - is composed, in part, of those headed back home after years in the US.

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This database allows researchers to compare the relative effects of genetics and environment on health and behavior.

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The death toll is not clear but families continue to search for or bury relatives killed following the recent disputed poll, that President Samia Suluhu Hassan won with 98% of the vote.

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But some victims, whose churches had been torched and relatives killed, have described the violence as a Christian genocide—a term echoed by Nigerian politicians representing them, and some Nigerians requesting asylum in the U.S.

A month after Melodee Buzzard vanished, her relatives remain desperate for answers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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