Eager to do my small part to expedite travel across that border, I asked the biologist whether he'd actually visited Las Vegas while researching his book.

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So I am going to do my small part.

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"In my experience, and the experience of most of my colleagues, that is a very small part of what special advisers do, " he said.

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