Battles

... People and pathogens also engage in struggles where the prize is life itself. Each winter, along with the rhinovirus wars, humankind engages in battles with the influenza viruses. The influenza viruses are far more potent than are the rhinoviruses, however. Death from influenza is a well-know ...

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... write about their defeats as well as their victories, and wrote enough detail into their histories so that, even today, we can reconstruct ancient battles involving thousands of troops with a high degree of accuracy. The Egyptians, on the other hand, wrote almost only about their pharoah, and when ...

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... that of a white woman." Gould's (1996, p. 135) response was a political one, namely "I do not regard as empty rhetoric a claim that the battles of one group are for all of us". David Ankney (1992, 1995) had a more scientific response. He suggested that the difference in brain size ...

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... dedication to social equity, cosmopolitan patriotism favored the fight against sexism, racism, and political corruption in the United States over battles against foreign foes. Its adherents held the domestic and foreign policy of the United States to its own democratic ideals and maintained that ...

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OK..this is what I am seeing. Engaging Frank and me in battles is as distructive as posting nonsense for pages and pages. Both results are the same. Nothing gets done or said that helps this disease and the spammer win. It is just another device and ...

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