Investors may have fretted a bit about the cost of the map.

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Texas' new map cost four Democratic representatives their seats.

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And because it could cost billions of dollars over several decades to build a comprehensive brain map, long-term funding could be another challenge.

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The opposition have accused the Conservatives of seeking to "gerrymander" the electoral map in their favour, but the Tories maintain the review will cut the cost of politics, make boundaries much fairer and help address a longstanding bias in the existing set-up favouring their opponents.

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Moreover, the more families carry directly the cost of educating their young people, the more they will want something more from universities than a place on the map of human understanding.

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