For instance, a plastic bag discarded in the sea could be mistaken by a turtle for a jellyfish, their main source of food.

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He was also aware of a more immediate risk in those cold-war days: a smaller visitor (such as the one that had exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening 2, 000 square miles of forest) might be mistaken by either superpower for a nuclear detonation and trigger Armageddon.

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Attacking them on the basis that there is a bubble would then be another mistaken intervention by the state in the free market. (Mr Greenspan is a noted libertarian.) On the other hand, if there is a bubble, it will eventually burst anyway.

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Though Frick, like Carnegie, stood at only five feet three inches (at a time when the average man was five feet seven), and was white-bearded by now as well, he would never be mistaken for Santa Claus.

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However Hardin was mistaken to assume that all commons are open access, and can be used by anyone without control or rules.

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Wearing collarless Issey Miyake shirts, Girbaud slacks and blazers by his friend Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, Watson would never be mistaken for a banker.

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