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If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware…

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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even…
Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you…
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten…
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and…
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself…
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and…
Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to…
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is…
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the…
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is…
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing…
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles…

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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research… — Zig Ziglar
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall… — George Washington
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for,… — Alexander Hamilton
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I… — James Madison
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as… — Adlai E. Stevenson
I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to… — Sarah Winnemucca
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to… — Patricia Hampl
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place… — Robert E. Lee

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