Statistically, that would not matter too much if the amount of epigenesis were the same in identical and fraternal twins, but research published last year by Art Petronis of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and his colleagues, suggests it is not.
Also, if you thought you might be able to get around the wash sale rule by replacing the sold security with the same or substantially identical one in your IRA, think again.
The head strap is near-identical and the same leather-look earcups and gold details have been used (including the gnarled housing on the 3.5mm jack) so that from a quick glance, they almost look the same.
You get the same, real metal door pulls, an identical organically sculpted steering wheel and the same gauge cluster, with ignition to the left of the steering wheel (a carryover from Le Mans racing tradition).
Not only was the letter similar to mine, it was exactly the same, every stroke of the signature identical, a facsimile (shown at right).
Apart from the spiffy new design, however, the two cameras are otherwise identical, with the same wide-angle lens with a 3.6x optical zoom, 7.2 megapixel CCD, 2.5-inch LCD, and 848x480, 30fps movie capturing capabilities.
One high-tech client has claimed that the rate Marsh got it for directors and officers insurance in 2003 was 45% higher than the client would have paid for identical coverage from the same provider-had it used a rival broker.
But if you want to make sure your losses do some good for you this year, you need to pay attention to something called the "wash sale rule, " which disallows a realized loss if you purchase the same, or "substantially identical securities, " 30 days before or 30 days after the day you booked the loss.
Pegging to the dollar rather than gold may not seem like the same thing, but the practical impact is identical.
The US researchers, led by Dr Martha McClintock from the University of Chicago, found that women preferred men with a genetic smell somewhat the same - but not identical - to their own.
Second, in order to recognize the losses, you must not acquire the same or a substantially identical security within 31 days before or after your sale. (This is known as the wash sale rule.) The sale of part or all of your stock portfolio changes your asset allocation.
It means they are all hellishly clever and knowledgable, but whenever you present a number of them with the same business problem they all come out with an identical answer because they have all learnt it from the same book.
The only other known bowl of the same size, form and almost identical decoration has been in the collection of the British Museum in London for over 60 years, according to Sotheby's.
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The only known bowl of the same form, size and almost identical decoration has been in the collection of the British Museum in London for more than 60 years, after being left to the museum by the prominent British collector Henry J Oppenheim in 1947.
The twins originate from a single fertilised egg, so they are always identical and of the same sex.
The MPs also question the adequacy of having "a monopoly supplier business model in police procurement" and note that the new official Taser supplier consists of "more or less identical personnel operating in the same premises with a near-duplicate website" as the former distributor.
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If that sounded familiar, it was probably because the quotes were almost identical to those issued (on the same subject) by Owen Smith, yesterday.
The two researchers did some calculations--this field requires a black belt in statistics--and discovered that the probability that two people might have identical lists of movies with the same ratings is tiny.
Both investors earn the exact same salary and share identical investment goals.
Tewary's neighbor, Bhishma Narain Singh, former governor, successively, of the states of Tamil Nadu and Assam, used the same ploy to acquire an identical house.
They also looked at the same patterns in non-identical twins.
No one, not even someone as polished as Sergei Lavrov, will ever convince anyone that the Czech Republic really should pay 30% more than Hungary for an identical product moving through the same pipeline network.
Both cameras offer the same familiar PowerShot UI, and they look nearly identical with the lens retracted.
The phone-maker was served the same day it filed a nearly identical suit against its competitor.
"Men shopping for suits don't necessarily want to be identical, and the same goes for women both wearing gowns, " she said.
The same is true of the Lumia 800 and it's practically identical forebearer, the N9, which leads us to believe Microsoft's camera app isn't quite up to snuff.
Well, the chassis is the most obvious one: instead of using the same design as the original RAZR i, the new MT788 looks identical to the MSM8625-powered dual-SIM XT788 on China Telecom.
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Since both tickers represent the same fund portfolio, they should have identical performance, and over time, they do.
She began her experiment by taking two populations of the same virus and changing their environments in identical ways.
Our intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is constantly recreated by its bearers, and experts claim that no two manifestations of one and the same practice or expression are ever totally identical.
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