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It does seem somewhat surprising, though, to hear these authors defend their voucher plan on the grounds that it fosters "pluralism in schooling," after pushing a shared curriculum as hard as they do.
It's not surprising they could eat the mess
Perhaps the task is not to shoot the sitting duck but to sneak up on it, loop a rope around its webbed feet, hang it upside down, and hit it with a stick until it bursts apart, raining toys and candy on the kids cavorting below--something surprising yet delightfully violent.
Certainly not all the findings are surprising; some rare cancers are already known to be associated with particular genetic defects, and syndromes that predispose to multiple cancers have been described, for example, that of Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer.
This is hardly surprising.