"What we want to do is to take the foreclosure off the credit report and dissolve it completely, so we can refinance the home and start over, " said Ms. Jackson, 57.

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In the past McAvoy convinced Mexican regulators to keep a copy of Evista, the osteoporosis drug, off the market by showing that it didn't dissolve properly.

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But despite being vanished off the face of the Earth, there were times when the walls around us would dissolve and I could see, with perfect blue-sky clarity, that everything I needed to know about the world was immediately available to me.

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