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"About as logically sound as the original, and with a somewhat better backbeat"
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"What able-minded young person hasn't thought about drafting a will for the sole purpose of demanding that a particularly funny, appropriately inappropriate song be played at his or her send-off?"
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"Invented by physicists at Tsinghua University, China, the new technique could be used to make materials that boost the performance of high energy density supercapacitors or remove heat from computer chips."
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Avalanche on Mars!
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