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<title><![CDATA[Mark Mills - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20522.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Mills]]></description><category domain="20522">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA['Artificial Intelligence' Has Been Misnamed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2026/09/03/artificial_intelligence_has_been_misnamed_1204062.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This summer marked the 70th'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' anniversary of the meeting when the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' term'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'artificial intelligence'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' was launched. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been less than four years since the launch of generally useful AI. ChatGPT's arrival in fall of 2022 triggered a tsunami of news stories and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Has a Spotty Vision About the Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/08/31/bill_gates_has_a_spotty_vision_about_the_future_1203133.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates is the latest tech titan to weigh-in with a mini-manifesto on AI. History shows, when it comes to technology, those who]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Elon Musk Right About Data Centers in Space?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/artificial-intelligence-data-centers-spacex?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The answer depends not on technology but on future AI demand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Will AI Shape Future? This Past Invention Offers a Clue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/artificial-intelligence-revolution-future-lighting-invention?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The science of combining basic elements in novel ways led to countless new classes of products and services.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AI Needs Data Centers--and People To Build Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/ai-data-center-construction-worker-jobs?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How did the world of bits and bytes become the second-largest source of demand for construction workers, trailing only residential housing?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disaffected Laptop Class Fears the AI Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-artificial-intelligence-jobs?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The disaffected laptop class fears the artificial intelligence revolution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the AI Revolution Means for the Future of Energy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/artificial-intelligence-energy-electricity-demand?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An age of convergence of bits and atoms has just begun.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[IEA Report, Iberian Blackout End Dreams of 'Energy Transition']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2025/05/16/a_new_iea_report_and_the_iberian_blackout_end_dreams_of_an_energy_transition_1110756.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no secret that the Republican'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Big Beautiful Bill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' plans to axe large swaths of mandates and billions of dollars in subsidies directed at achieving a so-called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'energy transition.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' If that budget axe falls, it will be the proverbial third strike that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Energy Realist' Approach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/04/12/the_energy_realist_approach_to_climate_change_1101905.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' part one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of our interview,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Mark P. Mills, the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the author of numerous books, dove into his twenty-year-old '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' yet timeless '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' treatise on energy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Bottomless Well, (co-authored with'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Peter Huber) and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Bottomless Well' at 20: Is Energy 'Infinite'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/04/09/the_bottomless_well_at_20_is_energy_on_earth_still_infinite_1101891.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Energy powers everything we do, and for most of humanity's 300,000-year history, that energy has come from boring old biomass. Grains, nuts, berries, and meat fueled our muscles. Wood burned in fires. All the way up to 1850, biomass provided more than 90% of the estimated 7,791 terawatt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We'll Never Have an Energy Transition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/energy-transition-green-new-deal?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite a tenacious narrative, history shows the Green New Deal vision is not inevitable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it's impossible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Energy Emergency' and the IEA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-emergency-and-the-international-energy-agency-c164a249?st=r8ZEUy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the agency went from being an honest broker to the Paris Agreement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'armed wing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[IRA, Meet DOGE]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/ira-meet-doge?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has doubtless occurred to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leaders of President-elect Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, that the quickest route to finding a big chunk of the DOGE's promised $2 trillion in savings is the Inflation Reduction Act. The problematic features of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Looming Political Earthquake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-inflation-reduction-act-a-looming-political-earthquake?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The law's unprecedented climate spending'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'much of it uninvestigated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'may soon lead to unprecedented scandals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Cost of the Energy Transition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-political-cost-of-the-energy-transition?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elected leaders will pay a price for green policies that hit citizens in the pocketbook.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drill, America, Drill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/drill-america-drill?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is, and should remain, the world's Number One oil producer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bet Against the 'Energy Transition']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-bet-against-the-energy-transition</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Modern civilization depends on abundant, affordable, and reliable energy. Policies that ignore this won't turn out well.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Energy Transition' Won't Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-energy-transition-wont-happen</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Foundational innovation in cloud technology and artificial intelligence will require more energy than ever before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'shattering any illusion that we will restrict supplies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Politics and Physics Collide]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-magical-thinking-behind-the-energy-transition</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mandates and massive subsidies cannot summon into being a world without fossil fuels.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Split the International Energy Agency Into Two To Avoid Shocks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/20/split_the_international_energy_agency_into_two_to_avoid_shocks_150357.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency (IEA) turns 50 this year. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to rethink the IEA'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s role and for the United States, the biggest source of funding, to suspend IEA payments until it has been restructured for the times.
Why? Start with the fact that the IEA was created...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Carbon Tax Cliff]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-carbon-tax-cliff</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Proponents of the levy misunderstand the energy economy and the nature of innovation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Risks of Mandating EVs for Everyone]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/10/25/the_political_risks_of_mandating_evs_for_everyone_988506.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we could imagine a time machine bringing to New York City, an American citizen from the 19th century, odds are the one thing that would seem the most amazing about our time would be the proliferation of the personal automobile.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Cobalt Red' Review: The Human Price of Cobalt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/cobalt-red-review-the-human-price-of-cobalt-11675293373?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Artisanal mining' is a euphemism, meant to disguise the exploitation of Congolese laborers that makes our battery-powered lives possible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Biden Admin Went Wrong on Energy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/what-should-bidens-energy-policy-be</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we needed just one example of the labyrinthine nature of global oil markets, it would be the fact that even as President Biden was visiting Saudi Arabia to cajole the kingdom to increase oil production, the Saudis were buying oil from Russia. Those purchases, at the embargo discount,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Inviting Inflation--and Energy Dependence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/carbon-tax-invites-inflation--and-energy-dependence</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new proposal for a disguised carbon tax comes at a particularly bad time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Transition to Nowhere]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/california-switch-to-primarily-solar-and-wind-powered-grid-is-dead-end</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the switch to a primarily solar and wind-powered grid is a dead end.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Made the Right Call on How to Win the 5G Race]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/trump-made-the-right-call-on-how-to-win-the-5g-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has announced that 5G, the next communications revolution, will be private-sector-driven and private-sector-led, while the federal bureaucracy will focus on facilitating innovatio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Green New Deal: An Exercise in Magical Thinking]]></title>
							<link>https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A movement has been growing for decades to replace hydrocarbons, which collectively supply 84% of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s energy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley's Political Perils]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/silicon-valleys-political-perils-16157.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tech industry must embrace openness, especially concerning news curation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Cars: Batteries Included?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/12/01/the_future_of_cars_batteries_included_124798.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Mills</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, has done what GM couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t when, 20 years ago, EV1 was introduced as the first (failed) mainstream, all-electric car. Tesla has moved electric vehicles (EVs) from cult to elite status. Seductively designed and impressively engineered, the nearly...]]></description>
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