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Some places are so boring that that's what's comically interesting about Peoria, Encino, Cleveland.
A number of Americans feel there are hundreds of interesting locations throughout the country.
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Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth.
Bacteria may build up in gaps in the gums.
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He's got plenty of name recognition.
He was a famous football star that was known throughout the city.
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She has yet to come to terms, artistically ...
Her artistic expression includes pastel paintings.
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Do it too soon and you seem glib and You're sorry?
They seem glib because they just got asked on a date.
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However, it came bundled with the obscure psych book (which still hadn't arrived from the conventional stores as of New Year's Day).
It arrived on it's own.
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Other news from 1) British Prime Minister John Major announced that a new national election will be held May 1. Polls show the opposition Labor Party leading by nearly 2-to-1.
The Labor Party believes in family values.
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Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, wh...
Peter Gay enjoys working as the center's leader.
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The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)
People still use the book as a guide to daily life.
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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.
The fiscal funds of 1998 and 1999 are coming up.
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The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains.
Teenagers have underdeveloped brains.
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Then one of two things must Your taxes will rise by $10,000, or else, your share of the debt will rise by $10,000.
Either way you will owe an additional $10,000.
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Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces.
Morris could have pushed further with Leuchter.
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What's wrong with informing certain segments of the electorate that your opponent is using the feel-good rhetoric of solutions to pull a fast one at their expense?
It has not occurred to the author that the opponent could try to pull a fast one.
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Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.
FEMA provides no information on handling reporting neighbors for fraud.
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His decision to resign and run for the ambassadorship few expect him to win should be treated like these other nutty episodes.
He is not expected to win the ambassadorship.
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The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.
The brand of condoms the woman uses is Trojan.
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The Dow Jones industrial average topped 7,000 . Financial reporters, while proclaiming once again that the optimists have been vindicated, are having more and more trouble finding anyone on Wall Street who was this optimistic.
Wall Street is more pessimistic than Financial reporters about The Dow Jones average topping 7000.
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N otting Hill opens with an superfluous voice-over that sets the scene and makes certain that the audience is oriented.
Notting Hill is a thrilling drama.
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As Buchanan put it, the boys in the War Room had won a little victory today over this little girl who is going to be denied justice.
The men in the War Room suffered a large defeat.
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It's funny how hard it is to find anything to sing about.
It has been hard to find anything to sing about for a long time.
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But the 20mph speed limit is probably obsolete.
Having a speed limit of 20mph is dying out because of environmentalism.
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John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig.
Glenn is conducting an experiment for medical science.
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So when you hear all this business about cuts, let me caution you that that is not what is going on.
The business about cuts is overstated.
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When Sam Donaldson pointed out on This Week that two Republicans, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, had pioneered engagement in the Shanghai Communique, George Will I was for impeaching Nixon over the Shanghai Communique!
Nixon and Kissinger were responsible for the Shanghai Communique engagement.
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In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one.
When companies merge with one another, it is stressful for the employees working there.
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The critics are ganging up on social critic Mike Davis, the MacArthur fellow and Marxist deflater of Los Angeles' dreams and delusions.
Mike Davis has never commented on the city of Los Angeles.
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At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard.
They preferred having sex at night so the no one could see them.
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Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
Israel is capable of closing PA's borders.
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Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.
Bauer hates Bush for not adhering to conservative values.
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There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.
the responses we received today were darling and silly in regards to sexuality.
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This is so great because I haven't been getting any of this lately.
They were also elated knowing there were more great things planned to come.
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Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.
States are not involved in any political processes.
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Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older.
Growing older usually changes peoples personal values.
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It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown.
Albania has always been independent.
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He says, Who are these people?
The man suffers from dementia.
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He likes to cite Kerouac's I am not anti-anything (except racists and certain big corporations).
Kerouac is a prominent author.
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Pokemon creates an entire alternate universe, a land with its own cities, ecosystem, and rules.
Pokemon's universe uses money in it's cities.
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A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.
the movie was independently produced.
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Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.
Angry viewers caused the show to be canceld.
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The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray.
The site will be maintained indefinately.
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[Hersh has] disassembled and obliterated his own career and reputation.
Hersh reinvigorated his reputation and career.
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In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner.
The future pope said women were more sensitive than men.
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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 was in the same scene as Finn.
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Over the following week or so I tracked the 20 to 30 auctions for Unreal that were going on, and I eventually won a copy for $18.
Nobody wanted the copy of Unreal that was up for auction.
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During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations.
Clinton spoke his State of the Union address in front of both political parties of Congress.
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Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.
Heston's occasional moderate instincts were developed from speaking with people from all walks of life.
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There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner.
There is no specific time that is measurable to find out if you're with the right partner.
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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
There is nothing to be gained from this.
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He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders.
These drugs have serious side-effects.
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This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.
Mozart started using it more in his concertos.
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A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit.
The Saturday correction didn't mention the rabbit.
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Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.
President's speeches have always been completely original.
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I remember.
They don't remember.
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If you're lying, shame on you.
You lie about many things.
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Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence.
In the past, groups such as these radically reformed the country.
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a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
SANE/FREEZE does not affiliate themselves with educational institutions.
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The three newsmagazines reconstruct the Heaven's Gate suicide, trace the cult's history, and link it to burgeoning New Age spiritualism.
The three newsmagazines have shown interest in the Heaven's Gate cult and New Age spiritualism.
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Demonstrations this winter against Tudjman quickly dissipated (at the time, he was being treated in the United States for cancer--he may not live much longer).
The demonstrations remained ongoing for a long time.
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Three sexual harassment allegations have been made against local Republicans in the last month.
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The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.
the Degas family have always been poverty-stricken.
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In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions.
the artists associated with NEA panels are generally very nice.
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But I'm going to have a specific agenda that addresses what I think are the big concerns as we go into the 21 st century.
We do not need an agenda, as the 21st century is no different from the last.
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As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.
Elaine Cassidy as Felicia was radiant, and Bob Hoskins as Hiditch was a slow burn of brilliance.
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His signature pictures--of adolescent girls exhibiting their genitalia--contain most of this show's electricity (John Updike, the New York Review of Books ). Several critics observe that Schiele can only do nudes.
Schiele has works that are not nudes.
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He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit.
He liked the nicotine buzz from the chewing tobacco.
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Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
Gilder has sold many books.
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Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires.
Bettelheim had a grand idea that connected all the known elements of the situation.
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Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a vir...
Internet gambling law falls solely on the Treasury Department enforcement.
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Dutch World, where all sorts of fictional characters created by Edmund Morris come out to play with children of all ages!
The characters are thought up by Edmund Morris.
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This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
Powell was an advocate for affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke.
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My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.
Leuchter will probably think he was sandbagged so he's not my concern.
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Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.
The author has never typed on anything in his life.
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Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.
Plotz assessed Winnie-the-Pooh.
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I have bitten my tongue all week, but I finally said something to the brat.
The writer did not have a high opinion of the person they spoke to.
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I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.
Monica Lewinsky had more privileges than any other intern.
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He's usually tiptop at fielding tough questions, agrees everyone.
He goes to shambles if you ask him any tough questions.
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Once all the world smiled benignly when an adult took an interest in a scoutmaster and troop, priest and altar boy--what could be more wholesome?
Trust in figures like scoutmasters and priests has never been taken advantage of.
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At one point he imagines this middle-class By dismissing our fears about declining morality out of hand, you fail to recognize that middle-class morality is not necessarily opposed to the values of inclusion and equality that you currently profess.
He dismissed our fears.
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Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal.
Clinton declared that the asylum seekers were to be deported without appearing before a tribunal.
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The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.
Jess Gupta's gender is listed incorrectly in at least one file.
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Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium.
There are no passive investors, all investors are active.
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Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them.
Tripp, and her lawyer, were both fully aware of the content of those tapes.
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A horse sitter mistakenly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.
A horse sitter correctly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.
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We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
we have nothing in common except a general dislike for each other.
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And second, in fact, there is no obligation to disclose anything.
As a point of fact, there is no need reveal anything at all.
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With the glorious exception of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V , there is nothing more demoralizing than an inspirational address.
Henry V has never given a speech before.
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Had Apple allowed Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, perhaps even IBM to build hardware running the Mac OS, it might very well have seen its software become the industry standard.
Nobody lets Compaq and IBM to use their OS in their hardware.
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(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.
Several on Wall Street believe the so-called Asia crisis has ended.
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But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year.
The reason they are a huge hassle is because of how difficult they are to obtain.
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A sidebar speculates that Slobodan Milosevic is probably hoarding chemical weapons, including nerve gas, blister agents, choking compounds, and hallucinogens.
Slobodan Milosevic is not a threat to people.
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 630 points in a week.
The Dow Jones was down at the end of the week.
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Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape?
There is a difference between scandal fatigue and rape.
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The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.
The third book was also part humor, with interspersed jokes and punchlines.
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Both are actors who involved themselves in politics.
Both actors do not enjoy politics at all.
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who turns out to have had sex with a dog, like maybe a golden retriever (unless things turn around and I get to do it at Fox in which case the dog will be a chimp, but that makes sense dramatically) who can't keep a secret (see, it's a talking dog), but it takes this big check from some tabloid where they JUST MAKE THI...
Regardless of what channel it's on, the writer thinks the dog makes more sense.
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In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all.
The shadow pages are truthful and that's why they aren't very concerning.
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I never spoke to my aunt, and I am not a student of the large literature by and about her.
The aunt was a famous economist, whose work was often cited by Wall Street executives.
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This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics.
This question created an all time high number of similarlies.
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Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance.
Honore de Balzac and Denis Diderot are considered experts in their field.
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