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Could the man with arguably the highest expectations in baseball history actually exceed them?

London, with 1.3m leasehold properties, and the North West, with 910,000, have the highest proportions of leasehold dwellings - 36% and 27% respectively.

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"Understanding the small effects of many genes across the genome also helps us to identify those patients carrying a faulty gene copy at highest risk of developing the disease. This higher-risk group can be followed more closely, and offered early opportunities to participate in clinical trials testing preventive treatments. Identifying people at the highest risk has been challenging until now."

The team found that only about 7% of areas at highest risk for whale-ship collisions have any measures in place to protect whales from this threat.

Climate change has already caused dengue cases to rise by 19%, the study found, and if temperatures continue to increase as projected, the next 25 years could bring an additional 40% to 60% spike, with parts of Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia at the highest risk.

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

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