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Each of the three provinces retains its own distinctive character.
Although Bush retains his lead in New Hampshire, John McCain has gained ground.
Flanked by some of the city’s most stylish fashion boutiques and shoe stores, the quarter’s main street retains the commercial tradition of its medieval name, Via de’ Calzaiuoli (stocking- and shoe-makers).
This emergent function of the new gene pair does not fit comfortably into any of the scenarios outlined above: both genes are functional yet neither retains the original function, nor has the original function been partitioned.
In the book, what goes through Septimus' head retains its power to startle--not so much for what he remembers as for how his remembrances color the present and pierce its surface like an X-ray.