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Arab states measured an 18-year jump in life span, according to the report, while the average for people in sub-Saharan Africa increased by 8 years.

Two years have now passed since the nation's payrolls peaked, and employment has fallen by almost 2.4 million jobs during that span, according to the Labor Department's recently revised numbers.

Those jerseys just arrived Friday afternoon, and they were selling quickly: One Modell's store sold 62 Lin jerseys in a two-hour span, according to Darren Rovell of CNBC.

And in just three years, the firm has raised $2.7 billion — more than any other venture capital firm in that same time span, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

Jose Reyes, who was held out of the lineup with right calf tendinitis for the fourth straight day, is expected to start Monday in Los Angeles.... David Wright is the first player since 1920 to have at least nine hits, nine runs batted in and five stolen bases over a three-game span, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The average number of inmates on any given day has swelled to 1,558 this year, from 1,352 in 2001, an increase of about 15percentt over that span, according to the county Sheriff's Department, which runs the jails in Yaphank and Riverhead.

That confinement occurred with the span of an "aggressive" 20 day-span, according to the Senate report.

Covered bridges generally lasted five times longer than open wooden spans, according to the bridge society.

UNITED NATIONS — The world has made significant progress in income, education and health over the past 40 years, but the gains have been uneven and in some places war and the ravages of AIDS shortened life spans, according to a United Nations report on Thursday.

The grid is spanned according to the curve using the Hilbert Space Key (HSK) [22].

The current suits fit some 90% of all men but only approximately 60% of all females, who tend to have narrower chests and shorter arm spans, according to Paula Hay, deputy program manager at Hamilton Sundstrand, which builds the suits for NASA.