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[00:05]preference
[00:08]"Michael has a preference for odd numbers," a team spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
[00:14]"He asked if he could be the odd number and we were happy to accept."
[00:23]replace
[00:25]It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable
[00:31]and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans' life expectancy
[00:38]has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced,
[00:44]clinical depression controlled,
[00:47]cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure.
[00:53]displace
[00:56]Existing tablet devices have either tried to displace laptops,
[01:01]and that didn't work, or displace the phone, and that didn't work.
[01:05]I would expect Apple to come up with something that stands on its own
[01:10]and complements the rest of the things they're doing.
[01:17]sensible
[01:19]Perhaps unfortunately, humanitarianism is not a foreign policy.
[01:24]It is, however, a sensible idea, which Franklin Roosevelt understood
[01:30]when he ended American occupation in 1934
[01:34]and put forward his hemispheric Good Neighbor Policy.
[01:41]sensitive
[01:45]Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were,
[01:50]and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price.
[01:57]slice
[01:59]Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock
[02:04]for slices of cucumber. However,
[02:06]when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers,
[02:11]so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock,
[02:15]their behavior became markedly different.
