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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control…
— David Nabarro
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it…
— Evelyn Waugh
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For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for…
— Margaret Chan
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
— Margaret Chan
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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
— James Rainwater
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All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness…
— Margaret Chan
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My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of…
— Patti Smith
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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of…
— Jared Diamond
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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
— Margaret Chan
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The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
— Margaret Chan
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The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all…
— David L. Katz
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