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The research advances the utility of a blood test that would be superior to current diagnostic tools that often don't identify the disease until it has caused structural damage to the joint.

“Service to a nation must be superior to service to a political party,” Kucinich said.

Not only could materials made in space be superior to those made on Earth, but they also could be preferable for eventual use in space: making them there is certainly more convenient than building everything on Earth and schlepping it up on a rocket.

But what about when they’re in a conference proven to be superior?

Random or suspicion-based scans, employed in concert with pat searches, would be superior to strip searches in cutting off contraband supply lines.