"If you paint a new house, you need to scrape off the old paint, " says Rabiner.

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Scrape off the black crispy bits all you want.

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Normally, baroque artists covering up an existing fresco would scrape it off, art historian Fernando Lopez told the Associated Press.

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At Cook It Raw, for a few days of freedom, they scrape lichen off of trees, forage for greens, kill their meat.

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Mr. FOODY: We take this fungus, this furry little bit of mold, scrape it off and put it inside a small flask.

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"You could scrape it off with a spoon, " she says.

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The keepers scrape the venom off the glass once it has dried.

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Once we abandon the bookstore for the virtual world we find that it is a primeval forest, dangerous and uninviting, replete with frauds and scams looking to scrape a quick buck off of unsuspecting readers.

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Enter Liaison Technology, with new software that can automatically scrape product and price info off thousands of websites, even if they change from day to day.

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Does she really honestly think she can just scrape by without spending any time off the publicity circuit?

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