Even the best mechanics will make some mistakes (they are human), but for most of us they still have a better chance of getting our cars to work than doing it ourselves.

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For the most part those virtues are on keen display in this book, which in fox-like fashion does not attempt to construct a grand account of human prediction but simply to identify some of the common ways in which people make mistakes and some of the methods by which they could improve.

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And then, by virtue of the fact that among all those labels there's only a total of 50 acts that the public will even get to hear to choose from, and some of those will sell millions and that sort of pays for all the mistakes that they make.

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"My sense is that Hondurans are finding themselves in a desperate situation and they really want U.S. cooperation, and that gives the U.S. some margin to make mistakes, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue.

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