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Unlike Europe during the Cold War, it would have several nuclear powers, not just two; and some of them would lack the capacity for “assured destruction” – that is, the ability to absorb a nuclear strike and still inflict devastating damage on the attacker.

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So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.

And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.

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