The system is tiny but has a grand name - Warp Drive (Water Alcohol Resisto-jet Propulsion De-orbit Re-entry Velocity Experiment).

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To discover the truth, the investigators, with the backing of the prosecution, decided to conduct an elaborate experiment and re-create the fire scene.

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The experiment backfired and Swiss Re sold its primary-insurance business to Allianz and to another Swiss insurer, Winterthur, in 1994.

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That experiment turned out to be rather less exciting when we learned that re-creating this situation was impossible.

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It ought, therefore, to resemble one of them after re-entry, and will thus provide a way of assessing the validity of the experiment.

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Such cases would often start with officers going to gyms, starting to experiment with steroids - "then the relationships they form when they're using steroids become corrupt and corrosive", he added.

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But whether you're holistically-minded, frustrated with drugstore finds or having a beauty emergency, it's not always wise to experiment on your face with that thing you saw on the Internet.

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