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The National Heritage Fellowship was created to           exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. One artist who received the fellowship, the Irish American accordionist Joe Derrane, was chosen for his lifetime contributions to the arts.

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Some cities estimate where sidewalks are located using road maps, which is not very accurate. Maryam Hosseini and her team trained a computer program to identify sidewalks in aerial images of Boston and used it on images of Philadelphia. The program’s performance was               blank  to that of the road-map method: it more accurately identified sidewalks, and it even distinguished between concrete and brick.

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Often, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is given to a single person, such as George de Hevesy in 1943. But recognition isn’t restricted to                  blank individuals. Instead, success in fields like chemistry is usually achieved through collaboration with other experts, as was the case for Max Ferdinand Perutz, who was among those awarded for “their studies of the structures of globular proteins.”

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The Apollo Moon landings (1969–1972) brought charged particle detectors and equipment too heavy for liftoff to the Moon and produced large amounts of data, much of which was stored on outdated technologies. A data-transfer project is making the data available again, thereby               blank the Apollo data’s usefulness, as the data are used to study the long-term effects of being on the Moon.

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Movies that are part of larger franchises are often criticized for being predictable. Take, for instance, Minions (2015), which is part of the Despicable Me franchise. It’s true that this movie resembles earlier Despicable Me movies. But just because a movie has familiar elements doesn’t mean it can’t also be worth watching. Critics generally agree that Minions isn’t the most exciting franchise movie, but franchise movies are rarely as stale as some people claim. And some franchise movies, like Creed (2015), are wonderfully original.