The fact that most pundits are concentrating more on which film will best the other over the fact that both studios are sacrificing potential opening weekend dollars (and overall dollars, because neither of these films will likely be very leggy) as a matter of pride is a shining symptom of the kind of horse-race analysis that has infected political commentary as well.

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Current detection tools using nanotechnology allow high-speed molecular detection of pathogens through analysis of their DNA in a matter of a few minutes where classical detection tools using regular PCR (polymerase chain reaction) would take over six hours.

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This taste-based analysis may well explain discrimination in settings where individuals interact and so tastes matter.

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