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A few years earlier, as America rushed to lock up ever more of its population for ever-pettier offenses, the absolute size of its incarcerated population surpassed that of China - despite China's population being more than four times that of America.

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This certainly is an accomplishment that must never be surpassed.

By 2008, Country A has surpassed Country B with $700 per capita GDP as compared with $650 per capita GDP.

Clemenceau said, "Life gets interesting when we fail, because it's a sign that we've surpassed ourselves."

In 2010, renewables other than big hydro, particularly wind and solar cells, got 151 billion dollars of private investment, and they actually surpassed the total installed capacity of nuclear power in the world by adding 60 billion watts in that one year.

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