Rather, the actual plot begins when Joker and Shepard are assaulted in the Citadel by mercenaries.

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Occasionally, you have to go back into the modern day and do some stuff before you can get back to the actual plot.

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Kent can look up actual crashes to plot the so-called crash pulse (the shape of a car's deceleration curve) and the places where a body made contact with the vehicle.

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And while the United States knew of plans of an attack, John Brennan, Obama's top homeland security and counterterrorism adviser said they had failed to uncover the actual Christmas Day plot.

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Each had interesting characters and a fantastic central plot that elevated them past the issues they had with actual gameplay.

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There's actual Zumba in it, along with plenty of digs about the bad writing and bizarre plot twists of "Fifty" writer E L James.

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They are what you get when you plot data for poor and rich countries together at a given moment in time, but actual levels of various pollutants in any individual country plotted over time wiggle around a lot more.

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He knows this because he has actual data on sales (available from Amazon) and the sales rank, and he knows how to plot a regression line in Excel.

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