And what he had said, at least twice before the new NIE came out, and what he went out of his way to repeat the day after it came out, was that if we permitted Iran to build a nuclear arsenal, people fifty years from now would look back and wonder how we of this generation could have allowed such a thing to happen.

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It takes the wisdom of fifty-some years in the same skin to know how to dress it, she says, how to take care of it, but most of all, how to be comfortable in it.

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Muslims in general have refused to critically examine this period to understand how the evolution of their history was shaped by events of those fifty years.

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In 1977, Brace published an article that put the age of the Western overbite at no more than two hundred and fifty years which is to say that flatware and, with it, a significant change in how we chewed were all it took for the edge-to-edge occlusion that we inherited from the Neanderthals to be replaced by the bite we now call normal.

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