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When apple growers talk about new varieties of apples, they don't mean something developed last month, last year, or even the last decade.

• Apple growers haven't developed any new varieties in recent decades.

• Some varieties of apples can be dveeloped in a short time, but others take a long time.

• New varieties of apples take many years to develop.

Blood cholesterol used to be thought of as a problem only for adults.

• Blood cholesterol is no longer a problem for adults.

• Only children have a problem with blood cholesterol.

• Blood cholesterol affects both adults and children.

There is more quartz in the world than any one kind of feldspar, but the feldspar as a group are five times more common than quartz.

• One type of quartz is five times more plentiful than feldspar

• Quartz is less common than feldspar

• The mostt common type of feldspar is as plentiful as quartz

Compared with the rest of its brain, the visual area of a turtle's brain is comparatively small since turtles, like all other reptiles, depend on senses others than sights.

• No reptile uses sight as its primary sense

• Animals that depend on sight all have larger visual areas in their brain than turtles do

• The visual ares of other reptile brains are comparatively smaller than those of turtles

Contrary to popular belief, there is no validity to the stories one hears of initials carved in a tree by a young boy becoming elevated high above his head when he visits the tree as an old man.

• Please don't throw the way many people think they do

• If a child carves initials in a tree, it won't grow

• Over time, initials that are cerved into a tree will be elevated

William Faulkner set many od his novels in and around an imaginary town, Jefferson, Mississippi, which he closely patterned after his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.

• William Faulkner wrote many of his novels while living in Jefferson, Mississippi.

• The town of Oxford, Mississippi, exists only in Faulkner's novels.

• Faulkner actually wrote about his hometown but did not use its real name.

Most fish take on, to a certain degree, the coloration of their natural surroundings, so it is not surprising that the fish inhabiting warm, shallow waters around tropical reefs are colored all the brilliant tints of the rainbow.

• Tropical fish are unlike other fish because they take on the coloration of their environment

• Tropical fish are brightly colored because they inhabit warm waters.

• Tropical reefs are brightly colored environments.

Although shepherding is an older and more beloved occupation, shepherds never caught the attention of American filmmakers the way cowboys did.

• There have been more American films about cowboys than about shepherds

• Films about shepherds were more popular before films about cowboys

• Cowboys are generally younger than shepherds

In all cultures, gestures are used as a form of communication, but the same gestures may have very different meanings in different cultures.

• No two cultures use the same gestures

• One gesture will never have the same meaning in two cultures

• A person from one culture may misunderstand the gestures used by a person from another culture

Even spiders that do not build web from silk use it for a variety of purposes, such as constructing egg sacs and nursery tents

• All spiders build webs

• Spiders that build webs don't build egg sacs or nursery tents

• Silk is used by all spiders