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But in 2003, when a United States-led coalition overthrew another Ba’athist dictator, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, the 1,300-year-old Sunni-Shia divide – which had been largely hidden, or even in remission, for many of those centuries – gained renewed and lethal salience.

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Over tens of thousands of generations, such skills increased the status of those who displayed them and gained a reproductive advantage over the less capable.

I had gained 25 pounds.

The U.S. has invested four billion dollars converting to digital mammography equipment, and what have we gained from that investment?

So it gained some traction, and we're trying to roll this out and trying to use it for educational purposes, but also, perhaps in the future, in a more clinical situation.

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