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In television, victory doesn't have a thousand fathers so much as a thousand sons. Since "Lost" became a phenomenon on ABC two years ago, the networks have repeatedly sought to replicate its formula. But what is that formula, exactly? Should producers follow the show's first-year recipe precisely, mixing together a model U.N. on a tropical island after a plane crash, marinating each stranger in dark secrets, folding in a heaping of tensions (fistfights over the hot babes and the asthma inhaler) and a dollop of enigmatic threats (polar bears and murderous interlopers), then spicing to taste with the occult (a man who arises from his wheelchair, a baby coveted by the evil ...