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Tonight Harvard gets a chance to infect the Dartmouth campus with a disease of its own, that being the disease of defeat at the hands of the Crimson women's swim team...
According to Harper's Magazine Lopez allowed the mites to infect his ear for four weeks, and lost hearing in that ear due to infection and clogging. Despite much suffering, Lopez repeated the experiment two more times to confirm his results. After the experiments, he flushed out his ear with warms water, which restored his hearing to normal in two weeks...
...many juries promise a continuing spot on daytime television, to say nothing of the prospect of big money for anyone willing to sell an inside account of the verdict deliberations. But even if the Simpson trial is in a class by itself, it still promises to exemplify problems that infect the American jury system as a whole. Those include the likely attempt by lawyers to skew the panel along racial and gender lines, plus a surfeit of dense testimony, in this case about the scientific validity of DNA evidence, in a trial that threatens to go on for so long...
...sake of public safety and the country as a whole, this is better than if the granddaddy of the far-right extremist movement presented a united front. If we're lucky they'll expend their energy fighting each other, and they won't have anything left to infect the American body politic...
Viruses like Ebola and X are scary, but they're too deadly to be much of a threat to the world. Their victims don't have much of a chance to infect others before dying. In contrast, HIV, the AIDS virus -- which may have come from African primates as early as the 1950s -- is a more subtle killing machine, and thus more of an evolutionary success. An infected person will typically carry HIV for years before symptoms appear. Thus, even though HIV doesn't move easily from one human to another, it has many chances to try. Since the first...