While America has had numerous third parties, one of our system's strengths is that it in effect forces one of the major parties to co-opt and smooth out the rough edges of issues that third parties may advocate.

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The latest development allows geophysicists to tweak algorithms on the fly--in effect, adding a little more salt here or more sandstone there to see if it helps to smooth out the image.

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