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"Getting a subduction zone started is like trying to push a train uphill -- it takes a huge effort," said Brandon Shuck, a geologist at Louisiana State University and lead author of the study.

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“If you’re retired, you have to ask yourself, ‘What kind of risk am I taking with stocks’,” says money manager William Bernstein, author of The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio.

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"We were surprised to find that these specialized cells cannot do both jobs at once," says Douglas Brownfield, Ph.D., senior author of the study, which was published in Nature Communications.

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“Basically, they are sacrificing their career-advancement opportunities,” said Mark Ma, associate professor of business administration at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the paper’s authors.

S Mark Young, a professor at the University of Southern California and author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, says Federline's book is unlikely to change people's minds about her.

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