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Stronger UK recovery boosts Brown's election hopes

Britain's rise from recession was stronger than previously thought, giving Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governing Labour Party a boost as it moves toward a national election.

Friday's revision of growth in the final quarter of 2009 to 0.3 percent from an initial estimate of 0.1 percent assuaged fears that the country hadn't exited from its recession, but economists warned the improvement remains shaky.

Third quarter gross domestic product was revised downward to a 0.3 percent fall from a 0.2 percent decline, and measures that had boosted the final quarter's figure, such as a break on sales tax and a car scrappage program, ended at the start of this …

Census, lies and growing up Series: -DATELINE-

Here's a tip for parents.

If the U.S. census-taker ever calls at your home, don't let one ofyour kids answer the questions in your absence.

Several decades ago, I was at the punk-kid age where I thought mymom and stepdad were real dumb compared to moi.

The census-taker showed up at the front door.

Nobody was home but me.

The census-taker asked me the questions.

Some of my answers are still engraved in my mind.

That's because they caused me trouble later.

The census-taker asked how far my mother had gone in school.

I think I told him she got through seventh grade. Maybe.

The census-taker solemnly took note of that, then …