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Converting an expression to a list of terms?

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• Subject: [mg71463] Converting an expression to a list of terms?
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:43:42 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Stanford University

How to convert an expression consisting of a sum of terms in an Output 
cell:

   A + B - C + . . . 

(where A, B, C are themselves product expressions) to a list

   {A, B, -C, . . . }

in some easier fashion than doing it by hand using Find and Replace?

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