If parents exhibit a tendency to treat identical twins more similarly than fraternal ones, for instance, then what researchers see as genetic factors could turn out to be environmental ones.

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Not all ideas conceived with whiskey and hunting buddies turn out to be good ones.

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Future presidents, even unsleazy ones, may in their turn be distracted by unpleasant allegations and lawsuits.

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That will, in turn, allow nasty ones to be attacked more vigorously and useful ones to be engineered to be of still greater service.

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There must be a highly specialized machine to turn the jumble of zeros and ones into information that a human can absorb, which is not at all obvious in a timescale measured in hundreds of years.

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In the relentless drive to turn physical things into virtual ones, the purpose served by the coffee table book will soon be served by the coffee table itself, and for the same reasons.

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