The sum rule for charmless inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays allows a t
heoretically clean and experimentally efficient determination of \V-ub \. T
he leading twist contribution to the sum rule is known in QCD. We compute h
igher twist corrections to the sum rule using the heavy-quark effective the
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