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"These materials tend to be porous, which significantly reduces their strength, and the parts suffer from excessive shrinkage, which causes warping," he says.

For the uninitiated, “Cabaret” begins with a marionette-like male character named the Emcee, the omnipresent master of ceremonies of an underground Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin, smiling into a warped mirror.

To show his versatility, he became known for his program’s warp speed, no-huddle offense through the years.

“We are now at warp speed with FEMA,” one city official wrote in an email.

The only documented efforts to warp Moldova's elections so far have been by Russia.