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One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the…

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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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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. — George Burns
Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick. — Jerry Lawler
My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. — Henny Youngman
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve… — George Iles
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the… — Unknown Author
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many… — Dwight L. Moody
It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world. — Avigdor Lieberman
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin
The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing… — Nahum Goldmann
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go… — Ron Rash
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. — Machado de Assis

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