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I can usually pretty much work out what is going to happen in a film and get a kind of perverse thrill out of that - knowing I can't be shocked or surprised (ennui is my middle name) - but with this offering the plot was so easy to read that there wasn't even a thrill to be gained in this sense.

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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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