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Checkers masters stared down their Armageddon a few years ago, when a powerful computer program named Chinook forged a tie with the second-best checkers player in the world, Don Lafferty.
The uniqueness-filter requires oligonucleotides to satisfy two simultaneous threshold criteria based on the calculation of the binding energy to their second-best target (the best target is itself).
If you are as long in years and short in energy as I am, watching television is the second-best occupation.
In fact, it may be the second-best tabletop radio out there.
I want to talk about the second-best sauce, which is "belonging."