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 % Example: Implementing Vec
 
 To bring everything together, we're going to write `std::Vec` from scratch.
-Because the all the best tools for writing unsafe code are unstable, this
+Because all the best tools for writing unsafe code are unstable, this
 project will only work on nightly (as of Rust 1.2.0).