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X-ray and neutron scattering measurements directly demonstrate the existence of polarons in the paramagnetic phase of optimally-doped colossal magnetoresistive oxides. The polarons exhibit short-range correlations that grow with decreasing temperature, but disappear abruptly at the ferromagnetic transition because of the sudden charge delocalization. The "melting" of the charge ordering as …