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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread…
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Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who…
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Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all…
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Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
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When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it…
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape…
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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed…
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In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life…
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When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and…
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Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers…
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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by…
— Martin Amis
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Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the…
— Ted Solotaroff
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…
— Michael Leunig
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I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one.…
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and…
— Lewis Mumford
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You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds…
— Skitch Henderson
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