How to select and hide all but first 5 elements in a HTML file (DOM)

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Published on 2011-11-22T17:42:04Z Indexed on 2011/11/22 17:51 UTC
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I am attempting to use coffeescript/jQuery to do the following:

1) Retrieve all the 'topics' displayed in the html (seen below)

2) Hide all the topics from display except for the first 5 listed.

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I tried to do the following but is not working

//Retrieve the entire list of and hide all but the first 5 topics in the list
$(".topics .topic")[5..-1].hide()

Can someone advise me on how I can correctly retrieve the list of topics from the HTML document and subsequently hide ALL but the first 5 topics?

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