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Anser

[′an·sər]
(vertebrate zoology)
A genus of birds in the family Anatidae comprising the typical geese.
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The violence she endures parallels that of Olmene although Cetoute returns to Anse Bleue.
Hearing of her sickness, this wordy man goes to confess his sin to Anse. On the way he decides that his fight against the elements, as he crosses the flooding river, helps to expiate his sins.
On Wednesday, October 26, a combined assault by Rangers, paratroopers, and Marine helicopters was launched against the Grand Anse campus to rescue the 224 students there.
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) has warned people about the blue light emitted from LED lights.
Choam Ksan district authority in Preah Vihear province imposed an import ban on Thursday on goods from Thailand after the country declared a similar ban on goods imported from Cambodia through the Anses international border checkpoint.
Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll made the announcement, on 22 October, while noting that the national food safety agency (ANSES) and the biotechnology council (Haut Conseil des Biotechnologies) had concluded that the French study by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini on Monsanto's transgenic maize NK603 and Roundup herbicide "is not such as to call earlier assessments into question".
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) warned in a statement that LED lighting is "photo-toxic" and can cause an irreversible loss in retinal eye cells.