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Suppose, for example, that an estate of $400 is to be divided among creditors who claim $100, $200, and $300.
Creditors are being allocated a total of $400 dollars from an estate.
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See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.
You should avoid drinking, but it's okay in moderation.
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Both mags also cover hot, new drug Ginkgo biloba.
Ginkgo biloba is a hot new drug.
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Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910.
Doctorow's Ragtime has won many awards.
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Time 's Terry Teachout says the 75-minute work's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, [and] its structure maddeningly repetitious.
Terry Teachout, who works for Time, did not like the 75 minute work theme.
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For example, suppose that the U.S. stock market was to crash, threatening to undermine consumer confidence.
Consumer confidence was lowest during the Great Depression.
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
Tollbooths have been a thing of the past.
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But then I don't know whether you mean that the attraction is physical or that the consummated relationship is physical and sexual.
There was an attraction, but don't know if it was physical.
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Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it.
Many malls have taken forceful action against the allegations laid out by the internet.
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I have a friend who was excluded from a jury because he answered yes to the question, Do you think a man who's been arrested is more likely to be guilty than a man who hasn't been arrested?
The jury found a man not guilty after his crime.
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In reality, it takes more work and more character for poor student X to finish in the top ten percent of his or her public school class and obtain a mediocre SAT score than it does for rich kid Y to finish in the bottom half of his private school class and score slightly higher on the SAT.
Student X was able to surpass rich kid Y in SAT score, and enter into a prestigious college afterwards.
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Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.
He thinks that we must stop putting the occidental culture at the center of our society
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It works, maybe to a fault.
To a fault, it is out of working order.
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But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.
Will was known for being a journalist.
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The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy.
Of the 270 electoral votes for the US Presidency, Al Gore plans to win 25 from Florida.
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In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare.
Professionals who care in the education industry are common outside of the country.
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At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty.
Gates harbored hatred for Foster at the time of his death.
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A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.
A pair of siblings are building a replica of a Model-T, with simple controls and a huge parachute.
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This July, Sen.
It can be done in August, Sen.
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But the 20mph speed limit is probably obsolete.
The 20mph speed limit is going to be removed.
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In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks.
Recent romantic comedies applaud working women's rise to success.
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Disney's Tarzan is not only post-imperial, post-racist, and post-classist but also post-masculine.
The movie stuck to traditional values.
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The only standard by which news organizations feel comfortable evaluating a policy is success or failure, not right or wrong.
Right and wrong are irrelevant for news media.
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In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.
He's actually been driving faster than the speedometer had indicated to him.
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Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen.
Moyers secretly hated presidents who got into trouble.
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The flip side is that parolees who want to go straight often can make it if they are literate, civil, and can stay off drugs, remain sober, and get a job.
If a parolee does not stay off drugs they will not be successful.
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In the United States, where inflation and the budget deficit have receded for the time being, vulgar Keynesianism has recently staged an impressive comeback.
The economy of the United States will keep being florid in the future
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Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told
Hatfield is covering Eufaula.
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Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.
Starling fended off reporters for the couple.
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[w]hether they call themselves socialist or not.
They may call themselves socialist.
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Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.
The image is very disturbing.
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Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.
The airstrikes may ignite terrorist attacks on US embassies.
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The development of Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 is long overdue, and I for one would like to offer my services as a volunteer beta tester.
I been waiting for Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 to be release.
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Afterward, Gordon thanked Earnhardt for teaching him all his tricks.
Earnhardt still has much to teach Gordon.
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The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings.
Soft news sells better than hard news.
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Yet, we do cruel things to animals--smart animals, affectionate animals, cute animals--all the time.
We treat creatures with infinite love and respect, time and time again.
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One historian has argued cogently that Calvin Coolidge's psychological problems helped .)
The psychological problems of Calvin Coolidge prevented him from functioning.
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The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times.
Movies lacking major stars are very expensive to make and capture and exclusive audience.
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According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
Time magazine failed to find a link between addiction and dopamine.
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But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propens...
The author believes economists should focus on small accomplishments rather than huge breakthroughs.
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Oh, come on, my date insisted.
The date did not want to do anything.
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An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification.
Chinese Xinhua praised Taiwan's president.
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They take on a cartoonish, uniform cheeriness.
They take on a cheeriness that is viewed as silly.
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We want to see it again.
The author would like to see it again.
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When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.
De Niro is older than Finn
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He must know that no one can be shocked when everyone's in on the joke, but he doesn't seem to want (or to be able) to step outside the camp aesthetic and play anything straight.
Everyone took part in the joke and wasn't shocked.
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Editorialists agree that Milosevic is a treacherous butcher, but nobody knows how to stop him without a major bombing campaign, for which Europe and the United States lack the stomach.
Europe and the United States know exactly how to stop Milosevic, without the use of relying on a large bombing campaign.
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In this climate popular hostility was trained against powerful private interests and gave new life to anti-Masonry as a political movement.
Anti-Masonry has been revived in the current political climate.
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There's nothing in Pecker that isn't done more brilliantly--and more subversively--every week on Mike Judge's inspired cartoon series King of the Hill .
King of the Hill was the only cartoon created by Mike Judge.
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But Royko also challenged white Chicago's prejudices, skewering bigots who tried to keep a white couple that had adopted a black baby out of their neighborhood or a funeral parlor that didn't want to bury a black soldier killed in Vietnam.
Chicago is known to be a very racist city.
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Along with many Americans, I first caught Andy Kaufman on the Tonight Show in the mid-'70s.
I first saw Andy Kaufman Live at a comedy Club.
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Anyway, what would be the point?
There is a minority of individuals that never see the point in doing a task.
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He would take notes on his yellow pad and sum up the sense of our meetings in an orderly manner, as he had always done.
He had always been a very organized man.
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Doctors have given a generation of such children normal sex organs (i.e.
Doctors have normal sex organs.
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Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.
These days these seem as unusual as handwritten letters and hand-bound books.
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There is the rejection letter I received from George , which he was too modest to put his own name on.
George never sent a rejection letter.
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This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.
The story focused on research, instead of interviews.
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In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare.
Professionals who care in the education industry are everywhere in this country.
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The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).
These things continue to occur quite frequently.
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The world is not now in depression, nor is a full-scale replay of the 1930s likely.
The depression of the 1930s is unlikely to reoccur.
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Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.
The surveillance was halted as soon as she was absolved.
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For example, the idea of putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom is attractive but, in the long run, federally funded stone tablets will only breed dependency on the nanny state.
Requiring Christian teachings in schools is a popular idea.
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It is this matter, he has said, which led him to found Judicial Watch in 1994.
Judicial Watch is often times bias.
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But Said's fame outside the American academy rests on Orientalism , his sweeping account of how Western art, literature, and scholarship have produced a deformed, biased picture of Arab and Muslim culture in the service of colonial domination.
Said doesn't like western art, literature, or scholarships.
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Edward Murphy, but Commander (later Admiral ) Joseph M. Murph Murphy.
Edward Murphy followed his father's footsteps by joining the military.
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Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910.
Doctorow's Ragtime is set in 2150 and is science fiction.
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That I don't want it to end.
The author wants it to continue for years.
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It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up.
Nerve keeps it up in the end.
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Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky?
One should ask granny if she feels lucky.
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Remember that only one generation before my remembered holiday party, most people didn't have health insurance at all.
Everyone had health insurance in the past
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Anything to keep from turning into one of those people.
Those others are terrible, I'd do anything to not become them.
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Although it hasn't dominated Seattle's skyline since the '80s, when the economic boom sprouted a host of taller buildings, it remains the city's symbol of progress.
The economic boom sprouted buildings with many stories.
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Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances.
His co-workers who only think about themselves are jealous of him
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The Associated Press notes she's leaving two months after The New Yorker brought in a new publisher and began to merge operations with other Conde Nast publications to save money.
She is going to leave soon according to the AP.
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This December, it will happen Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas.
There is going to be plenty of Dalmatian pups on the selves on Black Friday.
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Even readers who share Wilson's worldview will find much to provoke them.
Wilson can even aggravate those who agree him.
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One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S.
The image pattern within the painting resembles the shape of the letter S.
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The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
The move by the state came after months of deliberation.
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Since top athletes inevitably are drawn from the healthiest sector of the population, a generally superior system of health care means a bigger pool of people to draw from.
Top athletes rely on a superior health care system.
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In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister.
He started the writ piece unusually after a historic hiring of an African American to public office.
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We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.
We skipped appropriating bills for 1998 and went on to 1999.
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The White House says there's no such system.
The White House uses the system everyday to operate in plain sight.
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
The author may want to stop the gas guzzlers from rolling.
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But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
The key point was that he grabbed the ring.
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Also shown are a lot of stars--24 or 25, one of them could be a dust speck--symbolizing something to do with the sky or night time or celebrities or spaceships or celebrities in spaceships like in Star Wars . There are a helmet and some ferns or laurel, some kind of leaves, and a Latin motto, Salus Populi Suprema Lex E...
Every named star has a Latin motto.
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(David Plotz foretold Brown's departure in a recent Slate Assessment.
Brown predicted Plotz's leaving in a Slate Assessment.
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Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.
If the internet was not around the election may have turned out differently in 1996.
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The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0.
China had previously lost to Norway.
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Similarly, Bush boasts that he's a uniter, not a divider, while the RLC complains that Forbes, by criticizing Dole in 1996, caused fighting within the Republican Party that was divisive and not inclusive.
RLC asserts that Forbes caused fighting within the Republican Party that divided the party and left it feeling not inclusive.
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That, in turn, might cause a peaceful transition from communism.
A pleasant path that progresses outward from communism is possible.
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Ways to ward off Peter Lorre in M .-- Andrea Carla Been in a Coma Since 1932 Michaels
Since 1932, Andrea Carla has been in a coma.
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Skeptical doctors assert that such NDEs are purely physiological (naval pilots exposed to extreme gravity also have visions of bright lights and a God figure).
All doctors full support NDE's results.
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It's a picture of a needy young woman, one whom any older man with something to lose--or half a brain--would have the sense to avoid.
Needy young mammals that cause troubles for me do it against their willing
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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
Eszterhas experienced a lot of internal struggles
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In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over.
She wrote a memoir titled Stranger at the Party.
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The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.
The impeachment hearings are welcomed by the Republican officials.
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This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.
McCain-Feingold was the top item this week.
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Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.
Bennett isn't admired as such.
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Among experts who treat and study compulsive behaviors and chemical dependencies, there is controversy over the meaning of the term addiction and the efficacy of the disease model for a range of supposed addictions, from alcoholism to compulsive gambling.
Every expert who treats and studies compulsive behavior and chemical dependencies agrees on everything.
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Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers.
Major Czech newspapers cover the event.
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