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 ## What's Rails
 
-**Rails** is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to
+Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to
 create database-backed web applications according to the
 [Model-View-Controller (MVC)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller)
 pattern.