Here, 11, 000 km from Seoul, alone and impressionable, Ko began to drift away from his old friends and to take up with a racier crowd.

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Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.

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After a while, your thoughts will drift off to the unused siding where the old tall weeds are, and the string of curving words will toot a mournful toot and pull ahead.

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What we learn from these areas is precisely how evolution has acted to sculpt bodies, but it still does so using randomly-generated genetic variation and good old natural selection (and yes, Larry Moran, genetic drift also plays a role).

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Canada international Peters was a lively attacking presence for the Tractor Boys until he was withdrawn after 66 minutes and the 22-year-old was unfortunate to see a crisp 20-yard strike drift inches wide after taking a slight deflection shortly after the restart.

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San'ya has aged with its residents, old men with creased faces and missing teeth who squat and smoke on the pavements, drift from bar to bar, or sleep it off in the winter sun on cardboard and plastic matting.

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