The mixture the team achieved leaves the combined mass of lignin and cellulose in the trunk more or less unchanged and, contrary to the expectations of many critics, the resulting trees are as strong as unmodified ones.

ECONOMIST: GM trees are on their way

However, the most telling revelation of these televised images was that, contrary to expectations, both Bailundo and Andulo appear to have emerged from the government's offensive virtually unscathed.

ECONOMIST: Angola

Contrary to expectations, the right-wing politicians who now run India are showing few signs of rolling back economic reforms that started in 1991.

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