Yet this stretch of Singapore bisects an isthmus that is otherwise barely distinguishable from Nicaragua, a few hundred kilometres to the north-west.

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It's not even GM's first attempt to share design: Remember the Buicks and Oldsmobiles in the 1980s and early 1990s that were barely distinguishable from one another?

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In our trial of the Kindle 2, its screen technology was barely distinguishable from the older model in terms of faster page refreshes and identical in terms of contrast.

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His Conservatives are further to the right than the former Progressive Conservative Party, which governed Canada on and off until its annihilation in 1993 and which was barely distinguishable from the Liberals.

ECONOMIST: Canada's general election

The Skhul and Qafzeh skeletons are not identical with those of modern people but are clearly distinguishable from those of Neanderthals, and are generally classified as an early form of Homo sapiens.

ECONOMIST: Gaining the upper hand

Its peace policy is now hardly distinguishable from that of Kadima or indeed Meretz: a two-state solution based on the 1967 border, with land swaps and the retention of the bigger Jewish settlement blocks, as outlined by Mr Barak when he was prime minister from 1999-2001.

ECONOMIST: The party of the old establishment is dying under Ehud Barak

But long before Weegee (whose real name was Arthur Fellig) pandered to popular prejudices about the differentness of criminals, photography was used by criminologists influenced by crude Darwinian ideas about race, heredity and criminality to try to confirm their assumption that villains were somehow physically distinguishable from law-abiding citizens.

ECONOMIST: Most-wanted photography

This migration from a mall-based operator into a neighborhood center REIT was perhaps the most distinguishable initiative in which the REIT began to exploit its differentiated investment strategy of focusing on necessity retail properties.

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