Word: lifelong
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...make antibodies to viruses. In contrast to the dormant staying power of herpes viruses, the persistent hepatitis B virus can linger in the liver for decades while continuing to multiply. Those who are infected as infants, as many newborns in China, Southeast Asia and Africa are, almost always become lifelong carriers. "The virus doesn't do much damage for a long time," says Jesse Summers of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, "but then, after 20 or 30 years, chronic liver problems develop." Papillomaviruses, which cause warts, may also take up permanent residence in the body, biding their time...
...lifelong Mormon, Schloer worked as amissionary in Rosario, Argentina for two years,and graduated magna cum laude from Brigham YoungUniversity in 1983. He is survived by his wife,Diana, and two daughters, Lindsey, 1, andJacquelin...
...consequences. McCloy, then Assistant Secretary of War, shaped a vague "declaration" to Japan that was agreeable to other U.S. officials but that did nothing to avert the use of the Bomb. Bohlen, a career man in the Foreign Service, was instrumental in getting the views of his lifelong friend and fellow Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan accepted in Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue...
Despite these personal predispositions, a lifelong friend was able to convince me to accompany him to the links on my return home after freshman year...
...actually hauled into court by his own children. (His sons were all lawyers, unhappily for him.) And there in court . . . Mr. Joel's sons had their father declared non compos mentis. Those middle-aged lawyer sons were able to achieve this even though a host of Mr. Joel's lifelong friends testified, under oath, either that Mr. Joel Manning was perfectly sane or at least, as one of his oldest and most trusted friends phrased it, 'as sane as he had ever been.' " Taylor has always been able to portray the dignity in his characters, particularly when they...