1
 These are the last words
5001
span

2
 Abbie Hoffman ever uttered, more or less,
1
elaboration-object-attribute-e

3
 before he killed himself.
5001
temporal-before

4
 And You Are There, sort of:
5002
elaboration-additional

5
 ABBIE:
5004
attribution

6
 I'm OK, Jack.
5004
span

7
 I'm OK.
6
restatement

8
 (listening)
9
circumstance

9
 Yeah.
5006
span

10
 I'm out of bed.
5008
span

11
 I got my feet on the floor.
10
evidence

12
 Yeah.
5008
restatement

13
 Two feet.
5009
elaboration-additional

14
 I'll see you Wednesday?
5012
Question-Answer

15
 . . . Thursday.
5012
Question-Answer

16
 He listens impassively.
5018
Sequence

17
 ABBIE 
5014
span

18
(cont'd.):
17
elaboration-additional

19
 I'll always be with you, Jack.
5015
span

20
 Don't worry.
19
elaboration-additional

21
 Abbie lies back 
5017
List

22
and leaves the frame empty.
5017
List

23
 Of course that wasn't the actual conversation 
5020
span

24
the late anti-war activist, protest leader and founder of the Yippies ever had with his brother.
23
elaboration-object-attribute-e

25
 It's a script
5021
span

26
 pieced together from interviews by CBS News for a re-enactment, a dramatic rendering by an actor of Mr. Hoffman's ultimately unsuccessful struggle with depression.
25
elaboration-object-attribute-e

27
 The segment is soon to be broadcast on the CBS News series Saturday Night With Connie Chung, 
5026
span

28
thus further blurring the distinction between fiction and reality in TV news.
5026
consequence-s

29
 It is the New Journalism come to television.
5210
restatement

30
 Ms. Chung's program is just one of several network shows 
5028
span

31
(and many more in syndication)
30
elaboration-additional-e

32
 that rely on the controversial technique 
5030
span

33
of reconstructing events,
5031
span

34
 using actors 
5027
span

35
who are supposed to resemble real people, living and dead.
34
elaboration-object-attribute-e

36
 Ms. Chung's, however, is said to be the only network news program in history 
5032
span

37
to employ casting directors.
36
elaboration-object-attribute-e

38
 Abbie Hoffman in this case is to be played by Hollywood actor Paul Lieber,
5034
span

39
 who isn't new to the character.
38
elaboration-additional-e

40
 He was Mr. Hoffman in a 1979 Los Angeles production of a play 
5035
span

41
called The Chicago Conspiracy Trial.
40
elaboration-object-attribute-e

42
 Television news, of course, has always been part show-biz.
5040
span

43
 Broadcasters have a healthy appreciation of the role 
5039
span

44
entertainment values play in captivating an audience.
43
elaboration-object-attribute-e

45
 But,
5041
span

46
 as CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer puts it,
45
attribution-e

47
 the network now needs to broaden the horizons of nonfiction television,
5213
span

48
 and that includes some experimentation.
47
elaboration-additional

49
 Since its premiere Sept. 16, the show 
5045
span

50
on which Ms. Chung appears
49
elaboration-object-attribute-e

51
 has used an actor to portray the Rev. Vernon Johns, a civil-rights leader, and one to play a teenage drug dealer.
5046
Same-Unit

52
 It has depicted the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
5051
List

53
 On Oct. 21, it did a rendition of the kidnapping and imprisonment of Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson,
5048
span

54
 who was abducted in March 1985
5047
List

55
 and is believed to be held in Lebanon.
5047
List

56
 The production had actors
5049
span

57
 playing Mr. Anderson and former hostages David Jacobsen, the Rev. Benjamin Weir and Father Lawrence Jenco.
56
elaboration-object-attribute-e

58
 ABC News has similarly branched out into entertainment gimmickry.
5060
span

59
 Prime Time Live, a new show this season 
5057
span

60
featuring Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer,
59
elaboration-object-attribute-e

61
 has a studio audience 
5055
span

62
that applauds 
5058
List

63
and that one night
5054
Same-Unit

64
 (to the embarrassment of the network)
65
consequence-s-e

65
 waved at the camera like the crowd on Let's Make a Deal.
5053
span

66
 (ABC stops short of using an applause sign and a comic 
5061
span

67
to warm up the audience.
66
purpose-e

68
 The stars do that themselves.)
5061
elaboration-additional

69
 NBC News has produced three episodes of an occasional series
5064
span

70
 produced by Sid Feders
69
elaboration-object-attribute-e

71
 called Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,
5064
elaboration-object-attribute-e

72
 starring Maria Shriver, Chuck Scarborough and Mary Alice Williams,
5065
elaboration-additional-e

73
 that also gives work to actors.
5066
elaboration-object-attribute-e

74
 Call it a fad.
5070
Contrast

75
 Or call it the wave of the future.
5070
Contrast

76
 NBC's re-creations are produced by Cosgrove-Meurer Productions,
5072
span

77
 which also makes the successful prime-time NBC Entertainment series Unsolved Mysteries.
76
elaboration-object-attribute-e

78
 The marriage of news and theater, if not exactly inevitable, has been consummated nonetheless.
5073
span

79
 News programs,
5077
Same-Unit

80
 particularly if they score well in the ratings,
81
condition-e

81
 appeal to the networks' cost-conscious corporate parents
5076
span

82
 because they are so much less expensive to produce 
5074
span

83
than an entertainment show is
82
comparison

84
 -- somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 for a one-hour program.
5074
elaboration-additional

85
 Entertainment shows tend to cost twice that.
5079
Comparison

86
 Re-enactments have been used successfully for several seasons on such syndicated tabloid TV shows as A Current Affair,
5081
span

87
 which is produced by the Fox Broadcasting Co. unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
86
elaboration-additional-e

88
 That show,
5083
span

89
 whose host is Ms. Chung's husband, Maury Povich,
88
elaboration-additional-e

90
 has a particular penchant for grisly murders and stories
5085
span

91
 having to do with sex 
90
elaboration-object-attribute-e

92
-- the Robert Chambers murder case, the Rob Lowe tapes,
5082
span

93
 what have you.
92
comment

94
 Gerald Stone, the executive producer of A Current Affair, says,
95
attribution

95
 We have opened eyes to being a little less conservative and more imaginative in how to present the news.
5088
span

96
 Nowhere have eyes been opened wider than at CBS News.
5101
span

97
 At 555 W. 57th St. in Manhattan, one floor below the offices of 60 Minutes, the most successful prime-time news program ever, actors wait in the reception area 
5090
span

98
to audition for Saturday Night With Connie Chung.
97
purpose

99
 CBS News sends scripts to agents,
5091
span

100
 who pass them along to clients.
99
elaboration-object-attribute-e

101
 The network deals a lot with unknowns,
5094
span

102
 including Scott Wentworth,
5092
span

103
 who portrayed Mr. Anderson,
102
elaboration-object-attribute-e

104
 and Bill Alton as Father Jenco,
5093
Same-Unit

105
 but the network has some big names to contend with, too.
5096
span

106
 James Earl Jones is cast to play the Rev. Mr. Johns.
5098
List

107
 Ned Beatty may portray former California Gov. Pat Brown in a forthcoming epsiode on Caryl Chessman, the last man
5097
span

108
 to be executed in California, in 1960.
107
elaboration-object-attribute-e

109
 Saturday Night has cast actors to appear in future stories
5105
span

110
 ranging from the abortion rights of teen-agers to a Nov. 4 segment on a man
5104
span

111
 named Willie Bosket,
5103
span

112
 who calls himself a monster 
5102
List

113
and is reputed to be the toughest prisoner in New York.
5102
List

114
 CBS News,
5109
span

115
 which as recently as two years ago fired hundreds of its employees in budget cutbacks,
114
elaboration-additional-e

116
 now hires featured actors 
5108
span

117
beginning at $2,700 a week.
116
elaboration-object-attribute-e

118
 That isn't much 
5114
span

119
compared with what Bill Cosby makes,
5113
List

120
 or even Connie Chung for that matter 
5112
span

121
(who is paid $1.6 million a year
5111
List

122
 and who recently did a guest shot of her own on the sitcom Murphy Brown).
5111
List

123
 But the money isn't peanuts either, particularly for a news program.
5115
Contrast

124
 CBS News is also re-enacting the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Middletown, Pa., with something less than a cast of thousands.
5122
span

125
 It is combing the town of 10,000 for about 200 extras.
5119
span

126
 On Oct. 20, the town's mayor, Robert Reid, made an announcement on behalf of CBS during half-time at the Middletown High School football game 
5118
span

127
asking for volunteers.
126
elaboration-object-attribute-e

128
 There was a roll of laughter through the stands,
5120
span

129
 says Joe Sukle, the editor of the weekly Press and Journal in Middletown.
128
attribution

130
 They're filming right now at the bank down the street,
5125
List

131
 and they want shots of people 
5123
span

132
getting out of cars 
131
elaboration-object-attribute-e

133
and kids on skateboards.
5124
Same-Unit

134
 They are approaching everyone on the street
5127
List

135
 and asking 
136
attribution

136
if they want to be in a docudrama.
5126
span

137
 Mr. Sukle says
5130
attribution

138
 he wouldn't dream of participating himself:
5129
span

139
 No way.
138
restatement

140
 I think
141
attribution

141
 re-enactments stink.
5128
span

142
 Though a re-enactment may have the flavor,
143
evaluation-n

143
 Hollywood on the Hudson it isn't.
5139
span

144
 Some producers seem tentative about the technique, squeamish even.
5139
elaboration-additional

145
 So the results, while not news, aren't exactly theater either, at least not good theater.
5140
consequence-s

146
 And some people do think
5143
attribution

147
 that acting out scripts isn't worthy of CBS News,
5143
span

148
 which once lent prestige to the network
5142
List

149
 and set standards for the industry.
5142
List

150
 In his review of Saturday Night With Connie Chung, Tom Shales, the TV critic of the Washington Post and generally an admirer of CBS, wrote 
5149
attribution

151
that 
5149
Same-Unit

152
while the show is impressive, . . . 
5147
antithesis-e

153
one has to wonder 
5146
attribution

154
if this is the proper direction for a network news division
5146
span

155
 to take. 
154
elaboration-object-attribute-e

156
 Re-creating events has, in general, upset news traditionalists,
5152
span

157
 including former CBS News President Richard S. Salant and former NBC News President Reuven Frank, former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite and the new dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Joan Konner.
156
example-e

158
 Says she:
5156
attribution

159
 Once you add dramatizations,
160
condition

160
 it's no longer news,
5153
span

161
 it's drama,
5153
interpretation-s

162
 and that has no place on a network news broadcast. . . .
5155
span

163
 They should never be on.
5157
span

164
 Never.
163
restatement

165
 Criticism of the Abbie Hoffman segment is particularly scathing among people 
5161
span

166
who knew and loved the man.
165
elaboration-object-attribute-e

167
 That includes his companion of 15 years, Johanna Lawrenson, as well as his former wife, Anita.
5164
span

168
 Both women say
5162
attribution

169
 they also find it distasteful
170
attribution

170
 that CBS News is apparently concentrating on Mr. Hoffman's problems as a manic-depressive.
5162
span

171
 This is dangerous
5166
List

172
 and misrepresents Abbie's life, 
5166
List

173
says Ms. Lawrenson,
5165
span

174
 who has had an advance look at the 36-page script.
173
elaboration-object-attribute-e

175
 It's a sensational piece about someone 
5169
span

176
who is not here 
5168
span

177
to defend himself.
176
purpose

178
 Mrs. Hoffman says
179
attribution

179
 that dramatization makes the truth flexible.
5172
span

180
 It takes one person's account
5173
List

181
 and gives it authenticity.
5173
List

182
 CBS News interviewed Jack Hoffman and his sister, Phyllis, as well as Mr. Hoffman's landlord in Solebury Township, Pa.
5184
span

183
 Also Jonathan Silvers,
5177
span

184
 who collaborated with Mr. Hoffman on two books.
183
elaboration-object-attribute-e

185
 Mr. Silvers says,
5181
attribution

186
 I wanted to be interviewed 
5180
span

187
to get Abbie's story out,
186
purpose

188
 and maybe talking about the illness will do some good.
5180
elaboration-additional

189
 The executive producer of Saturday Night With Connie Chung, Andrew Lack, declines to discuss re-creactions as a practice or his show, in particular.
5187
span

190
 I don't talk about my work, 
5186
span

191
he says.
190
attribution

192
 The president of CBS News, David W. Burke, didn't return numerous telephone calls.
5205
List

193
 One person close to the process says 
194
attribution

194
it would not be in the best interest of CBS News to comment on a work in progress, such as the Hoffman re-creation,
5189
span

195
 but says 
196
attribution

196
CBS News is aware of the concerns of Ms. Lawrenson and Mr. Hoffman's former wife.
5188
span

197
 Neither woman was invited by CBS News to participate in a round-table discussion about Mr. Hoffman 
5191
span

198
that is to follow the re-enactment.
197
elaboration-object-attribute-e

199
 Mr. Lieber, the actor
5196
span

200
 who plays Mr. Hoffman,
199
elaboration-object-attribute-e

201
 says 
5196
attribution

202
he was concerned at first 
5193
attribution

203
that the script would misrepresent an astute political mind, one 
5193
span

204
that I admired, 
203
elaboration-object-attribute-e

205
but that his concerns were allayed.
5195
span

206
 The producers,
5202
span

207
 he says,
206
attribution-e

208
 did a good job
5201
span

209
 of depicting someone 
5199
span

210
who had done so much,
5200
Contrast

211
 but who was also a manic-depressive.
5200
Contrast

5001
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5002
span

5002
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5003
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5003
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5019
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5004
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5005
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5005
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5006
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5005
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5007
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5009
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5007
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5013
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5014
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5015
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5015
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5016
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5016
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5018
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5017
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5018
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5018
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5003
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5019
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5020
antithesis

5020
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5025
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5021
span
5025
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5022
span
27
background

5023
span



5024
span
5211
span

5025
span
5022
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5026
span
5210
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5027
span
33
means

5028
span
5029
span

5029
span
5033
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5030
span
5028
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5031
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32
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5032
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5029
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5033
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5037
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5034
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5036
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5035
span
5034
elaboration-additional

5036
span
5033
elaboration-additional

5037
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5024
elaboration-additional

5038
span



5039
span
42
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5040
span
5042
background

5041
span
5042
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5042
multinuc
5044
span

5043
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5044
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5052
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5045
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5046
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5046
multinuc
5051
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5047
multinuc
53
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5048
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5050
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5049
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5048
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5050
span
5051
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5051
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5044
example

5052
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5069
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5053
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5054
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5054
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5058
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5055
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5059
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5056
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5057
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5059
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5058
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61
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5059
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58
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5060
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5063
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5061
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5062
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5062
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5060
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5063
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5068
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5064
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5065
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5065
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5066
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5066
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5067
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5067
span
5068
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5068
multinuc
5052
comparison

5069
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5071
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5070
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5069
interpretation-s

5071
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5138
span

5072
span
78
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5073
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5080
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5074
span
5075
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5075
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5077
explanation-argumentative

5076
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5077
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5077
multinuc
5078
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5078
span
5079
Comparison

5079
multinuc
5073
circumstance

5080
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5137
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5081
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5087
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5082
span
5085
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5083
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5084
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5084
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5081
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5085
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5086
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5086
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5084
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5087
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5088
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5088
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5089
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5089
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5136
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5090
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5099
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5091
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5092
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5093
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5093
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101
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5094
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5095
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5095
multinuc
5099
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5096
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5095
Contrast

5097
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5098
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5098
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105
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5099
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96
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5100
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5101
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5107
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5102
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111
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110
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109
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5105
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5101
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5106
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5110
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5109
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5116
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120
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5112
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5113
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5113
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118
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5114
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5115
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5115
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5110
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5116
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5107
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5118
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5121
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5119
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124
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5120
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5121
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125
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5122
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5124
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5125
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5133
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5127
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5127
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5132
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5128
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5129
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5129
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5130
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5130
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5131
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5131
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5071
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5138
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5208
Contrast

5139
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5140
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5140
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5141
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5141
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5142
multinuc
147
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5143
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5149
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5149
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5150
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162
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167
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5164
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5167
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208
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209
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5202
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5203
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5198
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5204
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5205
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5206
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5206
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5160
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5207
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5208
Contrast

5208
multinuc
5212
Topic-Drift

5209
span



5210
span
5024
span

5211
span
5212
Topic-Drift

5212
multinuc



5213
span
5042
Same-Unit

