He smiled a thin smile as he was asked about the likelihood of an Israel attack, and repeatedly twisted his fingers together as the reporter finished his question.

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The neck ring is made up of four ropes of twisted silver strands joined together at each end.

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Working with two at a time, I twisted the ropes of dough together and tucked them into baking tins.

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Each DNA molecule in the body contains two long strands of chemical letters, or bases--A, T, C and G--that come together like a twisted ladder (a.k.a. the double helix).

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You could no longer tell which were the old cars and which were the new: the twisted wheels, the rusty fenders were mixed together with bodywork as shiny as a mirror and paint that gleamed like enamel.

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