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Here again is a grammatically tricky sentence:

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Packing materials also appear near the ear canals and in the sinus cavities and plugs close the nostrils.

It's about King Tut's mummy. Which I don't quite understand is the use of "plugs" here. Is its subject "packing materials"?

Pygmies do things that most humans forgot a long time ago. Like drive cat-size antelope into nets. Or live in adult accorde with pain and sudden death.

So what is "adult accord with pain and sudden death"?

Bugti and other nationalists accuse the government of doing little to develop the province, and say Islamabad has refused to renegotiate the energy loyalty rate, which has been unchanged since it was first set in 1952.

"What's happened here is unprecedented. Sadda, Hussein is on trial, they've gotten sovereignty, they've passed through three elections, written a constitution and had a referendum on the constitution and, with our assistance, biult the security forces,"he says."But we've got a ways to go"

So what is a "energy lowaylty rate"? It is clear that I has nothing to do with something such a royal family, isn't it?

And as well as this one:

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"What's happened here is unprecedented. Sadda, Hussein is on trial, they've gotten sovereignty, they've passed through three elections, written a constitution and had a referendum on the constitution and, with our assistance, biult the security forces,"he says."But we've got a ways to go"

What is"a ways" exavtly?

Thank you

^JB^ wrote:

So what is a "energy lowaylty rate"? It is clear that I has nothing to do with something such a royal family, isn't it?

Might be a misprint. Energy royalty rate would refer to an economic factor

That's my mistake.
Yes, energy royalty rate. (Strange term..))

You are serious?

"It would be ludicrous to take on this subject (Dan Brown's theory about Jesus) and then try to take the edges off," says Howard." We're doing this movie because we like the book."